Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Aclys
Wooden Roman throwing stick with a spiked head; attached to user's arm with a strap which enabled it to be retrieved after it had been thrown.
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- Gardebras
- Armor for the whole arm. Consists of the couter, vambrace and rerebrace.
- Partisan
- Special type of a polearm. Its blade is wide, long (2-2.5 ft) and sword-like and is also double- edged with lugs on its bottom.…
- Pommel
- Also called pummel. A variously shaped counterweight to the sword blade, riveted to the end of the sword tang above' the …
- Alamani
- Curved steel Indian sword with a gilt handle.
