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An illustration of a misericorde from a 1908 textbook. A misericorde (/ ˌ m ɪ z ər ɪ ˈ k ɔːr d / or /-z ɛr ɪ-/; from French miséricorde, "mercy"; itself derived from the Latin misericordia, "act of mercy") was a long and narrow knife used during the High Middle Ages to deliver mercy killings to mortally wounded knights, as it was designed to be thin enough to strike through the gaps ...
Misericorde may refer to: Alternate spelling of misericord , a wooden shelf on the underside of a folding church seat Misericorde (weapon) , a long, narrow knife used to dispatch wounded knights in Medieval times
Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) Modern. Bebut (Caucasus and Russia) Dirk (Scotland) Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing) Sgian-dubh (Scotland) Trench knife (WWI) Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (British Armed Forces, WW2) Push dagger
Misericorde (weapon) Global file usage. The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Misericordia (Dolch) Usage on fa.wikipedia.org
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Several examples of the weapons are currently undergoing team trials. [80] Unmanned ground vehicles; Mission Master United Kingdom Germany / Hungary: Unmanned ground vehicle: Rheinmetall Mission Master XT: Unknown: In 2020 Hungary showed its interest to develop and manufacture the tablet-controlled Mission Master XT from Rheinmetall.
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In Hungary, modified axes were also used as martial weapons by Hungarian warriors in the early modern period, used, for example, in the 18th century in Rákóczi's War for Independence against Austrian soldiers. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Hungarian Kuruc leader Imre Thököly and his soldiers used shepherd's axes as weapons. Hungarian ...