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- Arquebus
- Also called
Harquebus,
Hackbut or
Hagbush. A short gun used by infantry throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth…
- Pollaxe
- (The preferred spelling to
polaxe or
poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
- Sax
- Also
saex. Long and heavy single-edged knife prefered by the Nordic peoples. Saxes could up to 3 ft in length, and hilted like
…
- Xiphos
- Bronze sword with a tanged metal blade fitted into a plain wooden hilt.
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