Also known as lance spear, lance weapon
thumb|300px|Normans|Norman cavalry attacks the Anglo-Saxon [[shield wall at the Battle of Hastings as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The "lances" depicted here are held with a one-handed over-the-head grip, and so their use is not the same as the "lances" of the later medieval period, when they were fitted with a "grapper" designed to engage a lance rest attached to the wielder's plate armour and used couched in the charge.]]
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- Subclass of
- pole weapon
- Image
- Clevelandart 1964.357.j.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lances
- different from
- Kopie
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Article · 中文
騎槍（Lance），或稱騎士槍、騎兵槍，是一種騎兵用的槍類長兵器，通常被密集騎兵陣中的騎兵使用，用於衝垮對方的陣形，西元前就已經出現，到20世紀初才隨著騎兵從戰場上淘汰。用於戰場的騎槍有尖銳的槍頭，但用於競技比賽的騎槍通常是鈍頭。
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