From Encyclopedia
- Cut-and-Thrust Sword
- Quite thin, tapered sword with compound hilts suitable for fingered grip.
- Tilt
- A barrier of wood covered in cloth to separate the jousters as they ran a course. Introduced m the fifteenth century to stop headlong…
- Upper end
- The hilt part of a sword.
- Volant-piece
- An English term for the reinforcing brow-piece on a helmet such as the sallet.
