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Spear

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A shafted thrusting or throwing point. Not a named myth spear alone, and not pike or glaive as later polearms.

  • Spear is historically related to Iron.

    Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats spearheads among iron and steel points on wooden shafts. A named spear beside iron as ordinary head metal, not pike or glaive as later polearms.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

    historically related to · sourced · documented

European folklore

  • Pike is historically related to Spear.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the pike among long infantry spears of later European foot, the pike-square neighborhood. A named pike in that antient-armour and arms speech, not a halberd axe-head, not a poleaxe, and not a short spear alone.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Glaive is historically related to Spear.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the glaive among single-edged blades fixed on a long staff in the spear and polearm neighborhood. A named glaive in that antient-armour speech, not a halberd axe-head, not a poleaxe, and not a bare pike.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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