holy-water sprinkle

noun2

1. •
   (historical) A 16th-century weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, used mainly in England; a morning star.

   • The horse-chestnuts showed the little green knobs which would soon enlarge and hang all prickly, like the spiked balls of a holy-water sprinkle, such as was once used in the wars. — 1888
2. •
   Synonym of aspergillum (“an implement, in the form of a brush or of a rod with a perforated container, for sprinkling holy water”).

   • She alvvay smyld, and in her hand did hold / An holy vvater Sprinckle, dipt in deovve, / VVith vvhich she sprinckled fauours manifold, / On vvhom she list, and did great liking sheovve, […] — 1590