From Encyclopedia
- Bracer
- Early fourteenth century form of defence for the lower arm; also a term for an archer's arm guard to protect the forearm from the bowstring.
- Breastplate
- Plate armour protecttion for the front of the torso, to the waist. See also plackart.
- Camail
- Also Aventail. Hood or tippet made from mail.
- Pollaxe
- (The preferred spelling to polaxe or poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
