From Encyclopedia
- Berdiche
- See Bardiche.
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Mitten gauntlet
- A gauntlet with articulated transverse lames covering the fingers, rather than the fingers each being separately protected by a series of…
- Pike
- Long spear with a small steel head, carried by infantrymen. Metal strips (cheeks) were riveted down the shaft from the point, to reinforce…
