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The protrusions on the sides of the spearhead were useful for catching and trapping an opponent's sword, allowing the user to disarm the opposition. In profile, the head of a partisan may look similar to other types of polearm, such as the halberd , pike , ranseur , spontoon , ox tongue , or spetum .
Partisan, a large double-bladed spearhead mounted on a long shaft that had protrusions on either side for parrying sword thrusts; Poleaxe, a type of polearm with an axehead or hammerhead on the sides with either a spike or spearhead at the top and mounted on a long shaft.
From one of the mounds (mound no. 1), gray and monochrome painted vessels, a leaf-shaped bronze spearhead, from the second (mound no. 2), gray, monochrome painted vessels, bronze daggers, a tubular spearhead, bronze pins, beads and a fragment of a ribbon-shaped bronze object were found. [49] 30 Khachbulag mounds Khachbulag plain, Dashkasan District
Spear-armed hoplite from Greco-Persian Wars. A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as bone, flint, obsidian, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.
A modern recreation of a mid-17th century company of pikemen. By that period, pikemen would primarily defend their unit's musketeers from enemy cavalry.. A pike is a long thrusting spear formerly used in European warfare from the Late Middle Ages [1] and most of the early modern period, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in pike square formation, until it was largely replaced by bayonet ...
The flat leaf-shaped spearhead was composed of iron and its weight was counterbalanced by an iron butt-spike. [3] [4] [5] (cf Sarissa) The point part of the spear was called αἰχμή and ἀκωκή and λόγχη. [6] The rear of the spear was capped with a spike called a sauroter (Greek: σαυρωτήρ).
The form gaois is read in an early runic inscription on the so-called Mos spearhead, dated to the 3rd century, found in Stenkyrka, Gotland. [ 1 ] The etymon of English spear , from Proto-Germanic *speru (Old English spere , Old Frisian sper , Old High German sper , Old Norse spjör ), [ 2 ] in origin also denoted a throwing spear or lance ...
A polearm that had a crescent blade for a spearhead, which could be used for slashing and hooking. Kagi yari (鉤槍, "hook spear") was a key-shaped spear with a long blade with a side hook much like that found on a fauchard. This could be used to catch another weapon, or even dismount a rider mounted on horseback.