From Encyclopedia
- Coif
- Hood of fabric or mail worn under a helmet. By the twelfth century it often incorporated a ventail.
- Main-gauche
- Left-handed, parrying dagger used along with a rapier.
- 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…
- Targe
- Small, more flat wooden shield covered with leather or metal-trimmed, later all- steel.
