Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Umbo
See Boss.
From Encyclopedia
- Backplate
- Plate armour defence for the back.
- Bill
- Also Brown Bill or Black Bill. Polearm with a wide cutting blade and sometimes also spikes and hooks.…
- Tilt
- A barrier of wood covered in cloth to separate the jousters as they ran a course. Introduced m the fifteenth century to stop headlong…
- Waist lame
- A horizontal lamination in the breast or backplate at waist level.
