Also known as dussack
thumb|300px|Figure illustrating the basic cuts with the Dusäck in Joachim Meyer's fencing manual; a pair of fencers using the Dusäck is shown in the background (illustration by [[Tobias Stimmer, 1570).]] A dusack or dussack (also dusägge and variants, from Czech tesák "cleaver; hunting sword", lit. "fang") is a single-edged sword of the cutlass or sabre type, in use as a side arm in Germany and the Habsburg monarchy during the 16th to 17th centuries, as well as a practice weapon based on this weapon used in early modern German fencing.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Dusack, Tessak, Dussägge
- Weapon.image
- Tessak_type_F_NF.2010-0624.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- Tessak – Norway, 16th century
- Weapon.origin
- German Lands
- Weapon.type
- Sabre
- Weapon.is_bladed
- yes
- Weapon.production_date
- 1560s
- Weapon.variants
- Hilt Typology A - H
- Weapon.blade_type
- curved (occasionally straight)
- Weapon.hilt_type
- thumb ring, half basket, "Sinclair hilt"
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- saber
- Image
- Tessak type F NF.2010-0624.jpg
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- Dussack
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