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- Edge
- The sharp, cutting part of a
blade.
Swords are single or double-edged.
- Gauntlet
- Armored glove mostly consisting of a single plate for the back of the hand and a smaller and flexible part of overlapping plates for the fingers. See…
- 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
…
- War axe
- The term war axe is not a particular weapon but rather descriptive of an
axe designed specifically for use in combat. War axes were generally…
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