Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Locking gauntlet
Gauntlet with overlapping little plates fastened to a pin on the wrist.
From Encyclopedia
- Chausses
- Leggings made from mail when a part of armor.
- Cod-piece
- Fabric covering for the groin, latterly padded. Its counterpart in armour could be either of mail or, more usually, of plate.
- Quillions
- Special (Renaissance) term for two straight or curved cross-guards (front and back). Called just cross or guard when on Medieval …
- Hasta
- The hasta was the Roman trusting spear. It was carried by the units called triarii in Republic times. Marius military reforms made the pilum the…
