Weapons [Arms]
From Encyclopedia
- Arbalest
- Also crossbow. Consists of a bow attached to an arched stick. Is powerful, low-trajectoried weapon. Fires a bolt (a shorter arrow).
- Breaths
- Holes or slits in the visor of a helmet or the lames of a falling buffe or bevor, for ventilation; also…
- Bayonet
- At the end of the seventeenth century the French introduced the socket bayonet. This contained a sleeve fitting round the barrel and was locked…
- Jadagna
- Club made of ironwood; sometimes fitted with a stone or metal spike in the head.
