Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Cut-and-Thrust Sword
Quite thin, tapered sword with compound hilts suitable for fingered grip.
From Encyclopedia
- Backplate
- Plate armour defence for the back.
- Main-gauche
- Left-handed, parrying dagger used along with a rapier.
- War hammer
- Also called martel and horseman's pick. A short-hafted hammer used mainly in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries…
- Walking-Sword
- See Small-Sword.
