From Encyclopedia
- Foible
- Special (Renaissance) term for the upper, weaker part of a blade. Does most of the attacking for its speed and nimbleness.
- Gardebras
- Armor for the whole arm. Consists of the couter, vambrace and rerebrace.
- Martel
- See War hammer.
- 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…