Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Zagbnal
Steel pick or beaked axe from India; often engraved and inlaid with gold.
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- Also spelt cowter. Plate armor protecting the elbow.
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- (The preferred spelling to polaxe or poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
- Spangenhelm
- A modern German term describing conical helmets constructed of a number of segments riveted together; descended from Late Roman prototypes.
