From Encyclopedia
- Arquebus
- Also called Harquebus, Hackbut or Hagbush. A short gun used by infantry throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth…
- Tassets
- Overlapping plates covering the joint of the haunch part in a full- armor.
- Tang
- The continuing, hidden part of a blade inside a handle. May be of a different temper than the blade. Sword may have full or…
- Volant-piece
- An English term for the reinforcing brow-piece on a helmet such as the sallet.
