Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Locking gauntlet
Gauntlet with overlapping little plates fastened to a pin on the wrist.
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- Barbute
- See Barbut.
- Tilt
- A barrier of wood covered in cloth to separate the jousters as they ran a course. Introduced m the fifteenth century to stop headlong…
- Tuck
- See Estoc.
- Falx
- The falx is a curved cutlass-like blade on the end of a long wooden (almost spear-like) handle. Unlike a cutlass, however, the falx is sharpened…
