From Encyclopedia
- Bastard sword
- Longsword with a longer handle so it can be held by one or two hands. The blade is usually narrowly pointed and quite slender or…
- Boss
- Also umbo. The round shaped piece of metal at the center of a shield. Protects the hand.
- Mace
- Metal ball attached to a wooden handle. All steel in the later times. Often a symbol of power.
- Pollaxe
- (The preferred spelling to polaxe or poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
