Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Kama
Sickle consisting of a tanged steel head fitted into a wooden handle; fighting style often utilizes two kamas, one in each hand.
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- Riser
- Opposite of a fuller. Makes a sword more rigid yet with a flixible spine.
- Tilt
- A barrier of wood covered in cloth to separate the jousters as they ran a course. Introduced m the fifteenth century to stop headlong…
- Vambrace
- Armor covering the forearm.
- 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…
