From Encyclopedia
- Couter
- Also spelt cowter. Plate armor protecting the elbow.
- Bayonet
- At the end of the seventeenth century the French introduced the socket bayonet. This contained a sleeve fitting round the barrel and was locked…
- Great bascinet
- Late 14th early 15th century version of the bascinet where the mail aventail was replaced with two steel plates, one in the front and one in back.
- Ox-tongue spear
- Also called the Langdebeve and Langue de Boeve (both mean tongue of the ox). The ox-tongue spear was a polearm weapon common among the Swiss and…
