Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Mitten gauntlet
A gauntlet with articulated transverse lames covering the fingers, rather than the fingers each being separately protected by a series of articulated plates. See also gauntlet.
From Encyclopedia
- Blade
- The length of steel that forms a sword.
- Grip
- The handle of a sword. Mostly made of wire, leather, wood, ivory, bone or horn. Also a method of holding a sword.
- Kidney dagger
- See ballock dagger.
- Verdun
- Long thrusting sword with a diamond or square-sectioned blade used in the 16th century.
