Glossary

**ahlspiess**: two-handed fighting spear with a long, square-sectioned spike fitted onto a wooden handle **arbir**: a bladed staff; pointed wooden staff to which a wide, curved blade is attached **awl pike**: polearm with a long square-sectioned spike on the end **beaked axe**: polearm with a beak mounted opposite the blade **Bec de Faucon**: The spike or curved fluke behind the mail. **bill**: polearm derived from an agricultural tool; consists of a broadly hooked blade mounted on a wood shaft **brandestoc**: two-handed polearm with a long, double-edged blade concealed in the handle **catch pole**: forked polearm **Croix**: The area between the lead hand and the head of the weapon. **Dague**: The top spike **Demy Hache**: The shaft between the hands **falcastra**: consists of a straight, single-edged blade with a hook or point opposite the edge **feather staff**: walking stick with three concealed blades which could be brought into action by a downward jerk of the weapon; usually two-handed weapon **feruzue**: staff consisting of a hollow wooden tube, inside which is hidden a chain attached to an iron ball **halberd**: consisted of an axe blade mounted on a pole with a point opposing it; long thrusting point was part of the head so the weapon could be used to chop and thrust **hippe**:14th century European halberd with a short, wide point **jedburg axe**: Scottish polearm with a hook opposite the blade **kongo-zue**: wooden staff with iron rings at the end; used with both hands **kumade**: pole grapple with a three-pronged head **lajatang**: bladed staff weapon; two large metal crescents, one on each end of shaft **langue de boeuf**:(ox tongue) polearm with a broad, double-edged blade **lochaber axe**: Scottish polearm with a broad blade and a hook mounted on the end of the shaft **lucerne hammer**: European polearm with a long spike mounted atop a hammer with a four-pronged face and a single-pronged claw **Maille**: The hammer head. A Poleaxe might also have a blade, but all the treatises that deal with the weapon show or refer to a hammer. **moon**: polearm consisting of a crescent-shaped blade mounted so that its tips are facing the butt of the shaft **naboot**: two-handed polearm weapon **parry**: a deflection or block of an attack **poleaxe**: any long-handled ax with a spike, hook, or hammer opposite the blade **quarterstaff**: a stout, iron-tipped wooden staff, six to eight feet long. It was held by one hand at the middle and the other between the middle and an end **Queue**: The area below the back hand. This can refer to that whole section of the shaft when used to strike, bind, deflect, etc. or to the bottom end when thrusting **romphaea**: curved, double-edged blade mounted on a wooden staff **scaling fork**: fork with a hook attached to it to aid in the scaling of walls **scorpion**: European halberd with a narrow blade **scythe**: European polearm made by mounting an agricultural tool in line with a wooden shaft **shakwo**: two-handed polearm **spetum**: European polearm with a long, narrow blade set between two curved side blades **spontoon**: European half pike **sudis**:12th century European pike **toyak**: bladed staff that slashes **voulge**: European polearm with a broad axe blade topped with a spike **yoribo**: wooden Japanese staff used with both hands
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