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- modern quillon types. The medieval dagger in the 14th and 15th century also adopted a variant with quillons, styled after the hilt of a sword. Quillon-daggers...
- stout quillons (straight or curved) for effective parrying as well as an additional guard in the form of a ring or s**** on one side of the quillons where...
- up quillon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A quillon is either of two transverse projections forming a simple crossguard of a sword. Quillon may...
- Older forms of this guard retained the quillons or a single quillon, but later forms eliminated the quillons, altogether being referred to as a cup-hilt...
- typically that of a single-handed sword (ca. 80–90 cm (31–35 in)). The quillons were quite short, and mainly straight, and the pommel was often pear-shaped...
- Quillón is a Chilean city and commune and Diguillín Province, Ñuble Region. According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Quillón...
- featured quillons that curved back towards the hilt. These were much less effective at catching the opposing blade than the forward-swept quillons used by...
- characteristics is the hilt. It has two or four quillons. In the 4-quillon version the smaller two quillons are swept downwards toward the tip of the blade...
- guard that protects the hand. The basket hilt is a development of the quillons added to swords' crossguards since the Late Middle Ages. In modern times...
- accuracy more difficult. It has an offset pommel, and its two lengthy quillons form a simple crossguard. The tang of the blade is covered by slabs of...