Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Lame
A narrow strip or plate of steel, sometimes used in armour to provide articulation.
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- Grip
- The handle of a sword. Mostly made of wire, leather, wood, ivory, bone or horn. Also a method of holding a sword.
- Pauldron
- Plate armor for shoulders from several overlapping pieces.
- Herebra
- Phoenician sword with a double-edged, leaf-shaped blade OR straight-bladed Bornean sword with a guardless wooden hilt.
- Onager
- Roman Ballista, so named after a wild ass because of the way it kicked back upon firing. It was most common in the armies in the mid 4th century…
