- (European)
Delineated as 20-28 inches/51–71 cm
total length.
Curved shortswords Aikuchi,
haikuchi (****anese)
Akrafena (West African)
Barong (Southeast...
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renaissance period, but some
sabers can be
found in the late
medieval period)
Shortsword Ulfberht (Frankish)
Ahlspiess Bardiche Bec de
Corbin Bill
Glaive Goedendag...
- one-handed or two-handed single-edged
curved shortsword for
slashing Gladius:
Roman one-handed double-edged
shortsword for
thrusting (primary) and slashing,...
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common in
Northern Europe. Gladius, an
early ancient Roman thrusting shortsword for
legionaries Xiphos, a double-edged, single-hand
blade used by the...
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characteristic was
plunging either the
tachi (longsword),
wakizashi (
shortsword) or tantō (knife) into the gut and
slicing the
abdomen horizontally. In...
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billao (Somali: billaawe), also
known as a belawa, is a horn-hilted
Somali shortsword or long
dagger depending on
blade length. It
served most
notably as a...
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weapon with a single- or double-edged
blade that
could also be used as a
shortsword. Its
initial purpose was to
ensure that
riflemen could form an infantry...
- for Nepal.
Other swords in use
today are the sabre, the scimitar, the
shortsword and the machete. In the case of a rat-tail tang, the
maker welds a thin...
- Gr****: ξίφη [ksípʰɛː]) is a double-edged, one-handed Iron Age
straight shortsword used by the
ancient Gr****s. It was a
secondary battlefield weapon for...
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attempt to ward off
arrows or
other projectiles. The
secondary weapon was a
shortsword called a xiphos. The
phalangites also had a
smaller and
flatter shield...
