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- Arquebus
- Also called Harquebus, Hackbut or Hagbush. A short gun used by infantry throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth…
- Buffe
- See bevor and falling buffe.
- Klappvisier
- A modern term for a globular visor worn in Germany in the fourteenth century to accompany the basinet; it only covered the…
- Akinakes
- The Akinakes was a characteristic Persian sidearm. It was short in length but could be used for both cut and thrust. It is of Scythian origin,…