From Encyclopedia
- Cudgel
- See Waster.
- Glaive
- A broad-bladed, single-edged polearm. Mostly an 18” butcher-knife on a 6 - 7’ pole.
- Pike
- Long spear with a small steel head, carried by infantrymen. Metal strips (cheeks) were riveted down the shaft from the point, to reinforce…
- Riser
- Opposite of a fuller. Makes a sword more rigid yet with a flixible spine.
