- The
basket-
hilted sword is a
sword type of the
early modern era
characterised by a
basket-shaped
guard that
protects the hand. The
basket hilt is a development...
-
ornamentally pierced. The term "
basket hilt"
eventually came into
vogue to
describe such designs, and
there are a
variety of
basket-
hilted swords. Simultaneously...
- Renaissance. the
Scottish late
medieval claymore (not to be
confused with the
basket-
hilted claymore of the 18th century) the Bidenhänder
sword favored by the Landsknechte...
- two-handed
sword or the
Scottish variant of the
basket-
hilted sword. The
former is
characterised as
having a
cross hilt of forward-sloping
quillons with quatrefoil...
- and some
persons also
choose to use
their Zweihänders as rapiers, so a
basket hilt may be
designed atop this extension. A
landsknecht with Zweihänder Large...
- up
broadsword in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A broadsword, or
basket-
hilted sword, is an
early modern European sword.
Broadsword may also refer...
- this type of
guard normally included other features of the
older rapier hilt,
including quillons, ric****o, knuckle-bow, and a pas d'âne,
although these...
- or thrusting. Its blade,
longer than a
knife or dagger, is
attached to a
hilt and can be
straight or curved. A
thrusting sword tends to have a straighter...
-
itself is a slender,
round wooden rod,
traditionally of ash, with a
basket hilt.
Singlesticks are
typically around 34
inches (86 cm) in length, and 1...
- Jahrhundert",
Waffensammlung Beck, Inv-Nr.:Be 10.
Claude Blair, "The
Early Basket Hilt in Britain" in:
Scottish Weapons and
Fortifications (ed.
David H. Caldwell...
