From Encyclopedia
- Bellows Visor
- A modern term for a visor with horizontal ridges,such as on 'Maximilian' German fluted armours of the early…
- Morning star
- Also called morgenstern. A form of spiked club , popular in the early sixteenth century.
- Slow match
- A slow-burning cord of hemp or flax soaked in saltpetre and then dried. Used to ignite cannon and hand guns.
- Ventail
- An integral flap of mail attached to the coif in the thirteenth century; it could be drawn across the mouth to protect the lower face.
