Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Veruta
Throwing javelin of the late empire.
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- Cowter
- See Couter.
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Waist lame
- A horizontal lamination in the breast or backplate at waist level.
- Ox-tongue spear
- Also called the Langdebeve and Langue de Boeve (both mean tongue of the ox). The ox-tongue spear was a polearm weapon common among the Swiss and…
