Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Cowter
See Couter.
From Encyclopedia
- Coat-of-Plates
- Form of a flexible plate- armor made of steel, bone, or hardened leather plates which are riveted or stitched inside leather or…
- Elbow gauntlet
- The cuff of this gauntlet reaches the elbow, replacing both the lower cannon of the vambrace and the couter.
- Locking gauntlet
- Gauntlet with overlapping little plates fastened to a pin on the wrist.
- Pike
- Long spear with a small steel head, carried by infantrymen. Metal strips (cheeks) were riveted down the shaft from the point, to reinforce…
