From Encyclopedia
- Cross
- Also cross-guard or quillions. The straight bar or guard of a Medieval sword.
- Main-gauche
- Left-handed, parrying dagger used along with a rapier.
- Rondel dagger
- Military dagger with a single- edged or triangular blade. Pommel and hand-guard formed of roundels.
- Steel
- An alloy of wrought iron and carbon, capable of being hardened by heating and then quenching (rapid cooling) in water. This hardening process could…