European weapons

thumb|right|Muskets and bayonets aboard the [[frigate Grand Turk]]

A halberd (also called halbard or halbert) is a two-handed polearm that was in prominent use from the 13th to 16th centuries. The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It may have a hook or thorn on the back of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants and protecting allied soldiers, typically musketeers. The halberd was usually long.

thumb|Japanese arquebuses on a rack at Himeji Castle

pole weapon

100px|thumb|right|Pilum The pilum (; : pila) was a javelin commonly used by the Roman army in ancient times. It was generally about long overall, consisting of an iron shank about in diameter and long with a pyramidal head, attached to a wooden shaft by either a socket or a flat tang.

late medieval weapon

thumb|15th century culveriners

Japanese firearm

right|thumb|upright|Two examples of a bardiche together with a flail (weapon)|flail, on display in [[Suzdal]]

type of polearm

King George VI's historic sword of the United Kingdom

thumb|15th-century Republic of Venice|Venetian poleaxe at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] The poleaxe (also poleax, pollaxe and other similar spellings) is a European polearm that was used by medieval infantry. Poleaxes differ from halberds because the blade is vertical, not diagonal, and poleaxes are generally shorter than halberds.

thumb|Staghorn thumb|A being worn on the leg The ' ( ; ) – also anglicized as skene-dhu' – is a small, single-edged knife () worn as part of traditional Scottish Highland dress. It is now worn tucked into the top of the kilt hose with only the upper portion of the hilt visible. The is normally worn on the same side as the dominant hand.

thumb|Corseque, ca. late 16th - early 17th century. On display at Morges military museum. The corseque is a type of European polearm, characterised by a three-lobe blade on a shaft. The head features a long spike and two shorter and stronger lateral blades.

round shield used by the Roman army

polearm which was popular in Switzerland during the 15th to 17th centuries

Falarica, also phalarica, was an ancient Iberian ranged polearm that was sometimes used as an incendiary weapon.

thumb|350px|Iberian soliferreum from the Bastida de les Alcusses. Prehistory Museum of Valencia Soliferrum or Soliferreum (Latin: solus, "only" and ferrum, "iron") was the Roman name for an ancient Iberian ranged polearm made entirely of iron. The soliferrum was a heavy hand-thrown javelin, designed to be thrown to a distance of up to 30 meters. In the Iberian language it was known as saunion.

type of war hammer with a pointed head, usually with a short handle

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300px|thumb|right|The head of an obuch (with a rolled up beak) The obuch, obuszek or obuszysko is a type of melee weapon, very similar to a horseman's pick () but differing from it with a curved beak opposite the hammer. In Poland, it was customary to distinguish this type of weapon by the type of tip: if it has a sharp, perpendicular beak, it is a horseman's pick; if the beak is curled downward, it is an obuch; if it has an axe head, it is a . Most often there was a hammer on the opposite side of the blade.