From Encyclopedia
- Backplate
- Plate armour defence for the back.
- Breastplate
- Plate armour protecttion for the front of the torso, to the waist. See also plackart.
- Hand-and-a-half sword
- See bastard sword.
- Pike
- Long spear with a small steel head, carried by infantrymen. Metal strips (cheeks) were riveted down the shaft from the point, to reinforce…
