From Encyclopedia
- Couter
- Also spelt cowter. Plate armor protecting the elbow.
- Lance
- Typical weapon of a man-at-arms. Firstly a long (9 ft) spear but later developed into a heavier and even longer form unsuited for infantry.
- Targe
- Small, more flat wooden shield covered with leather or metal-trimmed, later all- steel.
- War hammer
- Also called martel and horseman's pick. A short-hafted hammer used mainly in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries…
