Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Pauldron
Plate armor for shoulders from several overlapping pieces.
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- Basinet
- Also called bascinet, basnet. An open-faced helmet with a globular or conical skull enclosing the sides of…
- Flamberge
- Special type of rapier with a waved blade. Used mostly by officers and uper class. Effective in parrying when it slows down the…
- Gauntlet
- Armored glove mostly consisting of a single plate for the back of the hand and a smaller and flexible part of overlapping plates for the fingers. See…
- Zagbnal
- Steel pick or beaked axe from India; often engraved and inlaid with gold.
