From Encyclopedia
- Bavin
- See Waster.
- Greave
- Also called schynbald or jamber. Plate defence for the leg from knee to ankle, initially protecting only the front, but…
- Pollaxe
- (The preferred spelling to polaxe or poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
- Recurve bow
- Unlike the longbow, the ends of an unstrung recurve bow are curved away from the archer. This allows the strung bow to be more powerful and shorter…
