Daggers, Knives, and Machetes

• acinaces (akinaka, akinakes)
• Arkansas toothpick
• arm knife (arm dagger)
  • gozma (gouza)
  • rilok
  • telek (talek)
• badik (bade bade, badek, bodik)
• balaraw
• balingbwa (Tetela dagger)
• balisong (Batangas knife, bente nueve, butterfly knife, click clack, fan knife)
  • Hackman butterfly knife (linkkupuukko)
• ballistic knife
• bank
• bayonet (inc. knife bayonet, M5 bayonet, M6 bayonet, M7 bayonet, OKC-3S bayonet, etc.)
• bichaq (bicak, bicaq, bichak, bich-haq, pichak, pichaq, pichok, pitchau)
• bichawa (bich'hwa, bichwa)
• billhook (block hook, brishing hook, pruning bill)
• bǐshǒu (匕首 / knife head)
• bollock dagger (ballock dagger, ballock knife, bollock knife, dudgeon dagger, kidney dagger)
• boot knife (gambler's dagger)
• Bowie knife
• buyo
• caluk (tjaluk)
• cane knife (espading)
• chilanum (chellanum, chillanum)
• coa de jima
• combat knife ( Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife, BC-41, Cuchillo de Paracaidista, Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, Gerber Mark II, Ka-Bar, Hitler Youth knife, Kampfmesser 42, KM2000, Mark 3 Knife, Morey MK 1 Knife, NR-40)
  • fighting knife (field knife, fighting utility knife, SARK, tactical knife)
  • survival knife (inc. Aircrew Survival Egress Knife, SOG Knife)
• corvo (corvo atacameño, corvo curvo)
• dagger (inc. Bronze Age dagger, knightly dagger)
• dirk (biodag) (inc. Oxborough Dirk)
• diver's knife (diving knife)
• ear dagger
• Éméicì (峨嵋刺 / Emei dagger / Emei piercer, 峨嵋針 / Éméizhēn / Emei needle / Emei sting)
• faca de ponta
• fascine knife
• gandasa
• gile
• glass knife
• gravity knife (Ibberson Gravity Knife, Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger-Messer, rampuri)
• gunong (puñal de kris)
• hachiwara (鉢割 / hachiwari / kabutowari)
• haladie (haladi)
• hinalung
• hunting dagger (Hirschfänger)
• hunting knife (inc. Sharpfinger)
  • camp knife
  • hunting trousse
  • puukko (buiku, tommi puukko, unna niibaš)
• jambiya (jambia, janbiya, janbwa, jhanbwah, jumbeea)
• kanzashi
• karambit (kerambit, korambit)
• kartika
• keerli
• khanjali (khanjarli)
• khanjar (canjare, canjer)
  • hançer (hancer)
  • kantschar
• khanjarli
• khapwa (khapwah)
• kīla (kilaya, phurba, phurbu, phurpu)
• kindjal (bebut, kinzhal)
  • qama (kama)
• kirpan
• kongaval (congavellum)
• Korean knife
  • bisu (비수 / pi swu)
  • dangeom (단검 / dan gum)
  • jangdo (장도 / cang do)
• koumaya (koumiyyah, koummya, koumya)
• kozuka
• kris (crease, criss, keris, kriss) (inc. Kris of Knaud)
  • kris majapahit
  • kris pichit
• kuchujilai (sunchillai)
• kujang
• kukri (khukuri, kukhri)
• kunai
• lu zhu jin zhui
• machete (matchet)
  • bolo (bolo knife, bolo-guna, garab, haras, itak, kutsilyo, pinuti, sundang, talibong)
  • facón (cuchillo criollo, facão, gaucho knife)
  • caronero (gaucho saddle-sword)
  • cuchilla
  • cuchillo de campo (country knife)
  • daga
  • golok (gulok)
  • parang
  • puñal (puñal criollo, puñal salteño)
  • Smatchet
  • verijero
  • vettukathi
• main-gauche
• maka pâhoa
• makraka
• mambele
• marohoshi (marohoshi jutte)
• māripi
• Mediterranean dagger
• Messer
  • Bauernwehr
  • Hauswehr (Rugger)
• misericorde (mercygiver, misericordia, pisto)
• Mora knife (Morakniv)
• navaja
• neck knife
• obe
• pahi
• pahoa (maka pahoa)
• palitai
• panga
• pantographic knife
• parazonium
• parrying dagger
• pesh-kabz (Afghan knife, Khyber knife, pesh-kabj, pesh-qabz, pesh-quabz, pish-ghabz)
  • choora (chhuri, chura)
  • kard (bahbudi, karud)
• pichangatti
• piha kaetta
• pinahig
• pisau (churiga, peng sau)
  • pisau raut (penat, pisau coret, pisau wali, rattan splitter)
• pocket knife ( Douk-Douk, farmer knife, Higonokami, Jacob's ladder (knife), Laguiole knife, Leatherman, Marjacq, Opinel knife, peasant knife, penny knife, Sebenza, sodbuster knife, Swiss Army knife)
  • folding knife ( Commander (knife), CQC-6, Strider SMF, Umnumzaan)
• poignard (poniard)
• pugio
• punyal
• quillion
• rampuri
• rencong
• rondel dagger
• Sami knife (lapinleuku, stuorra niibi, stuorniibi)
• scalping knife
• seax (scramasax, scramsax) (inc. Seax of Beagnoth)
• seme
• sgian dubh (skean dhu)
• shafra
• sheath knife
• shingar (boar's tusk dagger, shingaar)
• Shocknife
• shula
• siangham (siangkam)
• sica
• sinan-kapitan (sinan-tattao)
• spade dagger (Sudanese spade dagger, trowel dagger, trowel knife)
• stiletto (inc. United States Marine Raider Stiletto, V-42 Stiletto)
  • fusetto (gunner's stiletto)
• switchblade
• sword breaker
  • sword catcher
• tabona
• tantō (短刀)
  • aikuchi (匕首 / hishu)
  • kaiken (懐剣 / kwaiken, 懐刀 / futokoro-gatana)
  • moroha zukuri
  • yoroi tōshi
• tecpatl
• tekpi (tepki)
• throwing knife
• tjumaiin
• trench knife (inc. Hughes trench knife, LASBVN AFS trench knife, Mark I trench knife, M1917 trench knife, M3 Fighting Knife, Nahkampfmesser, Poignard-Baïonnette Lebel M1886/14)
  • French nail (nail knife)
• tumilla
• Wasp knife
• wedung
• xiao (ring-pommeled dagger)
• zira bouk (zirah bhouk, zirah bouk)

Swords

• afena
  • akrafena (akofena) (inc. dangapo, Kraku, Mponponson)
  • asomfofena
  • bosomfena (nsuafena) (inc. Bosompra, Bosomru, Bosomtwe)
• afran (ohoto)
• ahir
• alamani
• amanremu
• arming sword (Oakeshott Type XIII) (inc. Colada, Tizona)
• aruval (kathir aruval, veecharival, veecharuval)
• asi (asil)
• aswar
• babanga
• backsword
  • basket-hilted sword
  • broadsword
  • cutlass (hanger)
  • mortuary sword
  • pallasch (palache, palasz)
  • schiavona (schiavone)
  • Sinclair saber
  • Walloon sword
• balasiong (balacion)
• bangkung (bangkon, bankon)
• banyal
• barong (barung)
• basak-pwa (Ngbandi/Sango/Yakoma sword)
• baselard (badelaire, bazelaire)
• Baule executioner's sword
• Baule wooden sword
• beladau (baradi, beladah)
• Benin sword
• bicuco
• bilbo
• billao (belawa, bilawa, billaawe)
• boegis
• bokken (木剣, 木刀 / bokutō)
  • chashitsutō (茶室刀)
  • mokgeom (木劒 / 목검 )
  • suburitō (素振り刀 / 香取木剣 / Katori bokken)
• Bronze Age sword
  • antenna sword
  • bakatwa (bakatua)
  • Bronze Age rapier
  • carp's tongue sword
  • leaf sword (pakana, phasgana, phasganon)
  • xiphos
• Buli sword
• Bwaka sword
• cinquedea (anelace, anlace, braquemard, braquemart, coustil a croc, epee de passot, malchus, Oakeshott Type XXI, pistos)
• dahong palay (dahompalay, dahon palay)
• dāo (刀 / Chinese saber / to / tō)
  • bāguàdāo (八卦刀 / Bagua saber)
  • bèidāo (背刀 / back saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • butterfly sword ( 蝴蝶刀 / húdiédāo / butterfly knife / butterfly saber, 蝴蝶双刀 / húdiéshuāngdāo / butterfly double saber)
  • càiyángdāo (蔡陽刀 / poisonous yang saber / sayangdao) [Qing Dynasty]
  • chángdāo (長刀 / Chinese anti-cavalry long sword / long saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • chuánwěidāo (船尾刀 / boat stern saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • dàdāo (大刀 / Chinese broadsword / daidao / great saber,
  • dàkāndāo (大砍刀 / large chopping saber, 砍刀 / kāndāo / chopping saber) [Ming-Qing Dynasty]
  • dàpiàndāo (大扁刀 / great slashing saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • duǎndāo (短刀 / short saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • fèngzuǐdāo (鳳嘴刀 / phoenix bill saber)
  • gēdāo (割刀 / cutting saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • gōudāo (鉤刀 / hook saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • gōuliándāo (鉤鎌刀 / hook sickle saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • guǐtóudāo (鬼頭刀 / ghost head saber)
  • héngdāo (横刀 / horizontal saber) [Tang Dynasty]
  • huánshǒudāo (环首刀 / ring head saber) [Han Dynasty]
  • hǔyádāo (虎牙刀 / tiger fang saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • jiádāo (鋏刀 / monk's saber)
  • jiǔgōudāo (九鉤刀 / nine hook saber)
  • jiǔhuándāo (九環刀 / nine ring saber)
  • kāishāndāo (开山刀 / Kaishan saber)
  • liǔyèdāo (柳葉刀 / willow leaf saber) [Ming-Qing Dynasty]
  • mádāo (馬刀 / horse saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • miáodāo (苗刀 / sprout saber) [Han Dynasty]
  • mòdāo (陌刀 / footpath saber / long-hafted saber) [Tang Dynasty]
  • nándāo (南刀 / southern saber)
  • níuwěidāo (牛尾刀 / ox-tail saber) [Ming-Qing Dynasty]
  • [peidao] (佩刀 / side saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • piàndāo (扁刀 / slashing saber, 單刀 / dāndāo / single saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • piāoyáodāo (飘遥刀 / drifting saber)
  • púdāo (朴刀 / podao / hackberry saber, 双手带 / shuāngshǒudài / two hand belt [saber]) [Song Dynasty]
  • rèndāo (刃刀 / edged saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • [shan]tóudāo (X頭刀 / eel head saber)
  • shuāngrèndāo (雙刃刀 / double edged saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • shǒudāo (手刀 / hand saber) [Song Dynasty]
  • tàijídāo (太極劍 / Taiji saber)
  • wōdāo (倭刀 / Japanese saber)
  • xiāodāo (枭刀 / cutting saber / scrape saber)
  • xuěhuādāo (雪花刀 / shi fa dao / shui kwa doa / snowflake saber)
  • yànchìdāo (雁翅刀 / goose wing saber) [Ming Dynasty]
  • yànmáodāo (雁毛刀 / goose quill saber, 雁翎刀 / yànlíngdāo / goose feather saber) [Ming-Qing Dynasty]
  • yànzǐdāo (燕子刀 / swallow saber)
  • yāodāo (腰刀 / waist saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • yīngdāo (纓刀 / tassel saber) [Qing Dynasty]
  • yúntóudāo (雲頭刀 / cloud head saber) [Ming Dynasty]
  • yútóudāo (魚頭刀 / fish head saber)
  • zhǎnmǎdāo (斬馬刀 / horse-chopping saber / ja ma dou / zanbatō, 麻扎刀 / mázhādāo / horse piercing saber [NOTE: initial hanzi actually reads as "hemp"]) [Song Dynasty-Qing Dynasty]
• dha (daab, daarb, dah, darb, dhaw, sword-dao)
  • dha-hmyaung
  • dha-lwe (dalwel, dalwey)
  • dha-ma
  • dha-mauk
  • dha-shay
  • khamti dha
  • meed-maw
  • meed-phra
• dhup (dhoup)
• djoemloeng
• do (刀 / 도 / Korean saber)
  • hwando (환도)
  • hwandudaedo (環頭大刀 / 환두대도 / ring-pommel long sword; sohwandudaedo)
  • jikdo (直刀 / 직 도 / chik do)
  • samgakdo (三角刀 / 삼각도)
  • samjeongdo (三正刀 / 삼정도)
  • ssangdo (双刀 / 쌍도)
  • ssangsudo (双手刀 / 쌍수도)
  • yedo (예도 / ye do)
• dohong
• dolon
• dukn
• duku
• dussack (disackn, dusack, dusägge, dusegg, dusegge, dysack, tesak, tesák, thuseckn)
• eben (Bini/Efe/Yoruba ceremonial sword)
• efamba (Ekonda/Kundu/Mongo ceremonial sword)
• épée
• espada ropera
• estoc (estoque, Oakeshott Type XV / XVII, Panzerbrecher, stocco, tuck, verdun)
• executioner's sword (beheading sword, Richtschwert, sword of justice)
  • Sword of Mercy
  • Szczerbiec
• Fa sword (Fang sword)
• falcata (machaera hispana)
  • harpe
  • kherev (chereb, herebra)
  • kopis
• falchion (falcon)
  • cleaver falchion
  • cusped falchion
• falx (Dacian sword)
• faussart (Haumesser, two-handed glaive)
• Federschwert
• firangi
• flame-bladed sword (flambard, flamberge, Flamenschwert, flammard)
• flyssa
• foil (fleuret)
  • chasse coquin (chasse-coquin)
• Ful sword
• gayang
• genoui (janwi)
• geom (劍 / gum / kŏm / Korean sword)
  • bonguk geom (本國劍 / 본국검 / bonkuk gum / bonkuk kŏm / national sword, 神劍 / 신검 / singeom / shinkŏm / Silla sword)
  • bulsaegeom (불새검 / bulsaegum / firebird sword / phoenix sword)
  • chilseonggeom (七星劍 / 칠성검 / chilsunggum)
  • haedong jingeom (海東陣剣 / 해동진검 / haidong jingum)
  • iingeom (에인검 / eeingeom)
  • janggeom (장검 / jung gum / jung kum)
  • jedok geom (예독금 / jedokgum)
  • kalgeom (劍劍 /칼검 / kal gum)
  • saingeom
  • sainchamsageom (사인참사검)
  • samingeom (사밍검)
  • ssanggeom (双剣 / 쌍검)
  • ssangyunggeom (쌍융검)
  • unggeom
  • yongbunggeom (영붕검 / yongbunggum)
• ginunting
• gladius (cladibas, kladiwos)
  • gladius hispaniensis
  • Fulham gladius
  • Mainz gladius
  • Pompeii gladius
• goliah
• Großes Messer (grosses Messer, Hiebmesser)
• gupti
• hagibis
• halab
• hengdang
• hook sword (鉤 / gōu, 雙鉤 / shuānggōu / sang kauw)
  • hǔtóugōu (虎頭鉤 / tiger head hook)
  • jiǔchǐgōu (九齒鉤 / nine tooth hook)
  • lùjiǎogōu (鹿角鉤 / deer antler hook-sword)
  • yīngzuǐgōu (鷹嘴鉤 / eagle bill hook-sword)
• hunting sword
• hwa (Dahomey sword)
• iaitō (mogitō)
• Ibaka sword
• ida (ada, agedengbe, obe, tanmogayi)
• ilwoon (ilondo, iloon, Kuba sword)
• Iron Age sword
  • Celtic sword
  • Hallstatt sword
  • Migration Period sword
  • Pernik sword
  • ring-sword
  • spatha
  • Vendel sword
  • Viking sword (Oakeshott Type X / Xa) (inc. Cawood sword, Sæbø sword)
• jiàn (劍 / Chinese straight-sword) (inc. sword of Goujian)
  • bāguàjiàn (八卦劍 / Bagua sword)
  • bōchángjiàn (波長劍 / wave-long sword)
  • jùchǐjiàn (鋸齒劍 / giau tzu jen / snake-head saw-tooth sword)
  • shàngfāngbǎojiàn (上方宝劍 / imperial sword, 宝劍 / bǎojiàn / treasure sword)
  • shéjiàn (蛇剑 / snake sword)
  • shéshéjiàn (蛇舌劍 / snake tongue sword)
  • shuāngshǒujiàn (双手劍 / double hand sword)
  • tàijíjiàn (太極劍 / Taiji sword)
  • wúgōujiàn (吳鉤劍 / Wu hook sword)
• jiàncì (劍刺 / sword piercer)
• jumgeerdha
• kalis (keris)
• kampilan (bada, badanumogandi, campilan, kampilan bolo)
• kapee dha
• kaskara
• kastane
• katana (刀 / tō, 倭劍 / 왜검 / waegeom, 倭刀 / wodao) (inc. Kanemitsu, Kunishige, Kunitsugu, Masamune, Muramasa)
  • dōtanuki (同田貫)
  • shirasaya (白鞘)
  • shikomizue (仕込み杖, ninjazue, shikomibo, shikomijo)
  • shin guntō (新軍刀) (inc. Type 94, Type 95, Type 98)
  • uchigatana (打刀)
  • wakizashi (脇差) (inc. ko-wakizashi, o-wakizashi)
• Katipunan officer's sword
• Katzbalger (Landsknecht sword, lanquesnette)
• ke tri (ke-tri, pa dam, patang)
• Kete sword (Luba sword)
• khanda (khaḍga, khaṅga)
• khmali (Khevsur sword, xmali)
• khopesh (khepesh, sappara, sickle-sword)
• kiddo
• kiếm
• klewang (kelewang, klevang, tebol hujong)
  • chunderik (chundrik, cundrik)
  • ladeng
  • sanget (sangit)
• koncerz (končiaras)
• Konda cult sword
• Konda split-bladed sword
• Konde sword
• kora
• krabi
• lading belonajoeng lamah
• lahot
• larbango
• larbido
• laring
• Lele sword
• lemeng
• ligonda (Lia/Ngata/Ntomba/Sengele sword)
• Lobala executioner's sword
• loewoek
• longsword (espadón, gran espée d'Allemagne, greatsword, langes Schwert, mandoble, montante, Oakeshott Type XIIIa, passot, spada longa, spadone, two-handed sword) (inc. Manx Sword of State
  • bastard sword (épée bâtarde, hand-and-a-half sword)
  • claymore (claidheamh dà làimh, claidheamh mòr)
  • parade sword (Paratschwert)
  • schiavonesca
  • Zweihänder (Bidenhänder, Bihänder, Doppelhänder)
• Luba sword
• Lulua sword
• macuahuitl (māccuahuitl, mācuahuitl, macquahuitl, mahquahuitl, maquahuitl)
• makhaira (machaera, machaira)
• makraka (Zande saber)
• mandau (parang ihlang)
• Mandingo sword (Mbuun sword)
• Mangbetu chopper
• Mangbetu sickle-sword (trombash)
• mbele-a-lulendo (Kongo sword of authority)
• mbeli-ya-phoko (Pende sword)
• mel puttah bemoh
• mentok
• Messer (Kriegsmesser, langes Messer)
• moplah (ada katti, adya katti, ayda katti, malappuram kathi)
• mpuko (Salampasu sword)
• Mpuko sword (Mpuku sword)
• nagamaki (長巻, 長巻直し / nagamaki-naoshi)
• nagan (snake sword)
  • pahari (chakra sword, cobra sword, mandala sword, pahaari)
• namral
• Nande sword
• ngulu (Kuba executioner's sword)
  • Doko/Lobala/Ngala/Ngbaka/Ngombe executioner's sword
• noklang
• Nombo sword
• nuguit (narwhal-tusk sword)
• Nzakara sword
• Ovimbundu sword
• pabari
• panabas (pang-tabas, tabas)
• parang
  • parang bedak
  • parang ginah
  • parang jedok
  • parang latok
  • parang nabur
  • parang pandit
• pasangan
• pattisa (patissa)
• pedang (dap, gedubang, pedang djawie besar, pedang jenawi)
• pinuti (pinute)
• pira (pira cotabato)
• piso eccat
• piso gading
• piso halasan
• piso podang (podang)
• piso raut (piso raout)
• qaddara (kaddara, quaddara)
• ram dao (ram-dao)
• rankepet
• rapier
• rontegari
• saber (sable, sablia, sablya, sabre)
  • boarding saber
  • briquet
  • cavalry saber (inc. Marine non-commissioned officers' sword, 1859-present, Model 1913 Cavalry Saber / Patton saber, Pattern 1796 light cavalry sabre, Pattern 1908 and 1912 cavalry swords)
  • goddara (guddara)
  • ild
  • karabela
  • kilij (kilic, kılıç, kirich)
  • kyū guntō
  • Mameluke sword
  • nimcha
  • pulwar (pulouar, pulowar)
  • saif (sayf, seif, seyf)
  • scimitar
  • shamshir (shamsher, shamsheer)
  • shamshir shikargar
  • shashka (shashqa)
  • Swiss saber (Schweizersäbel)
  • szabla
  • talwar (talwaar, tulwar)
  • Tatar saber (czeczuga, ordynka, tatarska)
• sansibar (pang-sibak)
• sapola (forked sword)
• Senufu sword
• sepa
• seven-branched sword (七支刀 / chiljido / shichishitō, nanatsusaya no tachi)
• shinai (竹刀)
  • fukuro-shinai (袋竹刀)
  • hikihada-shinai (蟇肌竹刀)
  • jukdo (죽도)
• shortsword (inc. Model 1832 Foot Artillery Sword)
• shotel
• side-sword ( spada da lato)
• sirohi (serye)
• small sword (court sword, dress sword, small sword)
  • colichemarde
  • Model 1840 Army Noncommissioned Officers' Sword
• sosun patah (sosun patta, sosun pattah)
• spadroon (épée Anglaise)
• sultani
• surik
• susubat
• Swiss degen (Schweizerdegen)
• sword bayonet
  • cutlass bayonet
  • saber bayonet
• swordstick (cane-sword, sword umbrella)
• tachi (太刀)
  • eifu-tachi (衛府太刀, 衛府の太刀 / eifu-no-tachi, 毛抜型太刀 / kenuki gata tachi)
  • entō-tachi (円頭太刀, 円頭の太刀 / entō-no-tachi / round-pommel tachi)
  • hōtō-tachi (方頭太刀, 方頭の太刀 / hōtō-tachi / square-pommel tachi)
  • jintachi (陣太刀)
  • kabutsuchi-no-tachi (蕪槌の太刀 / turnip-mallet tachi)
  • kantō-tachi (環頭太刀, 環頭の太刀 / kantō-no-tachi / ring-pommel tachi)
  • keitō-tachi (圭頭大刀, 圭頭の大刀 / keitō-no-tachi / jewel-pommel tachi)
  • kissaku-moroha-zukuri-no-tachi (kogarasu zukuri tachi) (inc. Kogarasu Maru)
  • kodachi (小太刀, 小刀 / chisakatana / kogatana)
  • nodachi (野太刀)
  • ōdachi (大太刀 / ōtachi)
• takoba (takouba, takuba)
• talibong (talibon)
• tegha
• tigar
• Topeke sword
• tsep sa
• tsurugi (ken) (inc. Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi/ Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi)
  • ama goi ken (ama-goi no tsurugi)
  • chokutō (直刀 / ちょくとう / straight sword)
  • jōkotō (上古刀 / ancient sword)
  • ninjatō (ninjaken, shinobigatana)
  • warabite-tō (蕨手刀, 蕨手太刀 / warabite-tachi / bracken frond sword)
• utak
• väkipuukko
• waster
• yatagan (yataghan)
  • salwar yataghan (Afghan sword, Khyber sword, ataghan seylaawa, salawar, salawar yataghan)
• zafar takieh
• zulfiqar (Dhū l-Fiqār)

Oakeshott typology and examples

• Type X ("Viking sword" - inc. INGELRII, LEUTFRIT, ULFBERHT - Scandinavia to British Isles)
  • Type Xa ("Norman sword", "Templar sword" - Scandinavia to British Isles)
• Type XI (inc. Sword of Saint Maurice - British Isles to Austria - "Ritter sword", "Hospitaller sword")
  • Type XIa
• Type XII (inc. Sword of Alfonso de Sablo, Sword of Sancho IV, and Sword of Santa Casilda - Spain to Scandinavia - "Knightly sword")
  • Type XIIa ("grete swerde" - North Africa to British Isles)
• Type XIII
  • Type XIIIa ("gran espee d'Allemagne", "grete swerde" - Germany and British Isles to Spain and North Africa - "Bohemian broadsword")
  • Type XIIIb (Scandinavia to North Africa)
• Type XIV (inc. Moonbrand - Scandinavia and British Isles to Italy - "medieval short sword")
• Type XV (inc. Shrewsbury sword, Sword of Estore Visconte)
  • Type XVa (inc. Black Prince Sword)
• Type XVI
  • Type XVIa
• Type XVII (inc. Sempach family)
• Type XVIII (inc. Henry V Sword, Sword of Archduke Philip the Handsome)
  • Type XVIIIa (inc. Sword of Albrecht II, Sword of Edward III)
  • Type XVIIIb
  • Type XVIIIc
  • Type XVIIId
  • Type XVIIIe
• Type XIX (England, Germany, Italy, Spain - "condottiere", "gallowglass")
• Type XX
  • Type XXa
• Type XXI (cinquedea - inc. Sword of Cesare Borgia)
• Type XXII (inc. Sword of Frederick III, Sword of Heinrich V)

Clubs, Maces, and Truncheons

• anave
• an-gora
• Apache war club (flop-head club)
• aribō (gojō, kirikobō)
• aunurgitj (aunurgitch, aunurgith)
• ball-headed club (knobstick, poggamoggan)
  • ja-dagna
  • kajihwaodriohta (Cayuga war club)
  • inyankapemni (cannaksa, inyan kapemni, Lakota stone club)
  • puk-gah-mah-gun (Dakota stone club)
• baton
  • expandable baton (collapsible baton, spring cosh, tactical baton, telescopic baton, telescoping baton)
  • stun baton
• billet club (baseball bat club, truncheon club)
  • alafolo (afui)
  • bowai
  • buat (Melanesian "mushroom" club)
  • mbo
  • pövai (‘akau, ‘akau tä, ‘akau tau, povai)
• block war club (flared quadrilateral club)
  • macana (apatoe, apootoo, aputu, butu, makana, mossi, mushi, potu, tauna)
• boomerang
  • japururunga (taburaringa)
  • katariya (katari)
  • muragugna
  • singa
• borduna
• bulawa (bulava, buława)
• burda
• chabang (cabang, tekpi, tjabang)
• ceremonial mace
• champi (Inca star mace)
• Chinese clubs, maces, and truncheons
  • bàng (棒 / Chinese cudgel / lit. "stick")
    • chángbàng (長棒 / long staff)
    • chǔbàng (杵棒 / pestle cudgel)
    • gānbàng (甘棒 / shaft cudgel)
    • lángyábàng (狼牙棒 / wolf tooth cudgel)
    • shàobàng (哨棒 / sentry cudgel)
    • wǔhuābàng (五花棒 / gu duo bang / five flower cudgel)
  • bǐjiàchā (筆架叉 / brush rake trident)
  • chánzhàng (禪仗 / monk's cudgel / zen stick)
  • guǎi (拐 / crutch)
    • dàguǎi (大拐 / large crutch)
    • [dingziguai] (T-shaped crutch)
    • [ligongguai]
    • niúxīnguǎi (牛心拐 / ox heart crutch, 牛角拐 / niújiǎoguǎi / ox horn crutch)
    • [suleguai]
  • jiǎn (鐧 / Chinese mace)
    • āomiǎnjiǎn (凹面鐧 / concave mace)
  • tiěchǐ (鐵尺 / titjio / iron ruler)
  • tóngrén (銅人 / brass man)
  • zhuǎ (爪 / claw / talon, 鐵爪 / tiězhuǎ / iron claw)
    • bǐ[yan]zhuǎ (筆X爪 / iron-brush talon)
    • hǔzhuǎ (虎爪 / tiger claw)
    • jīnlóngzhuǎ (金龍爪 / gold dragon claw)
• Chinese war fan (扇 / shàn, 鐵扇 / tiěshàn / iron fan)
• coconut-stalk club
  • apa‘apai
  • lapalapa
  • uatongi
• coup stick
• cudgel
  • singlestick
• dagger club
• diamond-shaped war club
  • subi (Malaita diamond-shaped war club)
  • supe (San Cristobal diamond-shaped war club)
• dhara
• disc mace
• espantoon
• fa'a lau fa'i (bilateral-toothed club)
• fa'a lau fala (Samoan mace club)
• fa'a lau taliga (ear-shaped club, fa'a lau talinga, mushroom club)
• flanged mace
• gada (gadha, gedak)
• ga-ne-u'-ga-o-dus-ha (deer-antler war club)
• gata (Fijian snake club)
• gi okono (New Caledonian vertical disc club)
• go-porowa-ra-maru (go-poropua-ra-mam, New Caledonian bird's-head club)
• gorz-e gāvsār (gurz gowesir, ox-head club)
• gurj (gargaz, gorz, gurja, gurz)
• gunstock war club (gunstock club)
  • ga-je'-wi (ga-je-wa, ga/ewa, Iroquois gunstock club)
  • nontoni towin mistik (Cree gunstock club)
  • sali (Fijian gunstock club, satall)
• hoeroa
• hohucanhpi (canhpi, Sioux deer horn club, Sioux tomahawk)
• Japanese war fan (dansen uchiwa, gunsen, saihai, tessen, uchiwa)
• jawbone war club
• jutte (十手 / jitte)
  • karakuri jutte
  • naeshi jutte (nayashi jutte)
• kanabō
  • ararebō
  • konsaibō
  • nyoibō
  • tetsubō
• kanamuchi
• khundli phansi
• kipas (Indonesian fighting fan)
• kiseru
• knobkierrie (iwisa, knobkerrie, knobkerry, knopkierie)
• ko kanga (Karaja war club)
• Korean fighting fan (mubuchae, mupuche, tempered birch fan)
• kotiate
• kurunthadi
• lanmiansou (blocking face pipe, 大煙斗 / dàyāndǒu / large smoking pipe, 鐵煙斗 / tiěyāndǒu / iron smoking pipe)
• lei o manō (hoe lei o manō)
• life preserver (life-preserver)
• lohangi katti
• longiel (? Australian / Niuean / Solomon Islands ? curved club)
  • myponga
• mace
  • maza turquesa
  • mazule
• magado (sunta)
• magido
• makila
• morning star
• mugdar
• nalnal (nal-nal)
• newa
• nifo'oti (unilateral-toothed club)
• nightstick (inc. Monadnock PR-24)
• otta
• paddle club
  • amuamu
  • culacula (thulathula)
  • kinikini (sikota)
  • pagaya
  • pakipaki (bakibaki, bogge bogge, mo‘ungalaulau)
  • sapakana
  • tacape
• paoa (Rapanui war club)
• patiti
• patu
  • mere (patu pounamu)
  • patu aruhe
  • patu muka
  • patu onewa
  • patu paraoa
  • patu phan
• Penobscot root burl war club
• pernach (shestopyor)
• pineapple-headed war club
  • gabagaba
  • totokia (beaked battle hammer, beaked war hammer, i tuki, i tuki drausa, pineapple club)
• piriform mace (pear-shaped mace)
• pohaku
• potato-masher club (halyawhai)
• pouwhenua
• pukepuke (bukebuke, bulibuli)
• qauata
• roromaraugi
• rootstock club
  • vunikau (vunikau vividrasa)
  • waka (dromu, na waka, ndromu, waka vividrasa)
• rukqi (Vanuatu war club)
• rungu
• sagila
• sai
  • kiam bokiam
• Sally rod
• sarvayasam (tomara)
• scepter (sceptre)
• shark tooth club
  • pacho (tebutje)
• shashpar (shishpar, shushbur)
• spatulate club
  • bial-sanam
• spindle club
• spike war club
• stellate club (star-headed mace)
• stone hammer
  • i-wata-jinga (Omaha war hammer)
• stone mace
• swagger stick
• sword club
  • mata
• talavalu (eight-spiked club, tu'i, tu'i tapavalu)
• talita (Samoan parrying club)
• tekkan
• tewhatewha (tewhatawha)
• throwing club
  • kolo
  • koromatang
  • 'olo
  • ula (i ula)
• tingi (hafted stone disc club)
• toko toko
• tokyeta (Mohave mesquite straight club)
• tonfa
  • mai sokki
• toyak (kayu, tembong)
• trench raiding club (trench club)
• truncheon
• 'ua (Rapanui figural war club)
• 'u'u (Marquesan figural war club)
• waddy (hunting stick, waddie, wadi, wady)
  • iruella (iruwalla)
  • kadimango
  • kujerung
  • leonile
  • lil-lil
  • miru
  • nil-li
  • nulla-nulla
  • periperiu
  • quarriang-an-wun
  • wakadi (mabobo, wakerti)
• wahaika

Hammers

• bec de corbin (bec de faucon)
• cekan (çekan)
• chúi (錘 / Chinese hammer)
  • bāléngchúi (八棱錘 / eight flange hammer, 八嶺錘 / bālǐngchuí / eight ridge hammer)
  • guāxíngchúi (瓜形錘 / melon shaped hammer)
  • jīnguāchúi (金瓜錘 / golden melon hammer / pumpkin hammer)
  • lìguāchúi (立瓜錘 / standing melon hammer)
  • wòguāchúi (卧瓜錘 / lying melon hammer)
• footman's hammer (martel de fer)
• horseman's hammer
• Lucerne hammer
• mallet
• maul (maillet)
• ōtsuchi
• stone hammer

Axes, Picks, and Sickles

• ankus
• axe
• battle axe
• bhuj (elephant knife)
• boarding axe
• broadaxe
• buckie
• bullova (bulova)
• champi
• Chinese axe weapons
  • chicken sickles (jīdāolián, jīzhuǎlián)
    • jizhuayinyangrui (chicken claw yin-yang sharp)
  • fǔ (斧 / short-handled battle-axe)
    • dānpiànshuāngfǔ (單片雙斧 / single bladed double axe)
    • shuāngpiànshuāngfǔ (雙片雙斧 / double bladed double axe)
  • lián (劆 / sickle)
  • shǒujǐ (手戟 / hand halberd)
  • yuè (鉞 / long-handled battle-axe, 大斧 / dàfǔ)
    • hǔshǒuyuè (虎手鉞 / tiger paw axe)
• chipan (beliong, biliong, kapak)
• conca cuchuna (conqa cuchona, Inca axe, kunka kuchuna)
• Dane axe (Danish axe, English long axe, hafted axe, Viking axe)
• dokki (do kki)
• dolabra
• doloire
• entrenching tool (E-tool)
• fasces
• francisca
  • [banfu] (broad axe)
• hache de dragon (dragoon axe)
• hatchet
• head axe
  • Apayao head axe
  • Igorot head axe (pinang, wasay)
  • Tinguian-Kalinga head axe (aliwa, gaman, kaman)
• horseman's pick (nadziak)
• hunga munga (danisco, goleyo, mambele, njiga)
• hurlbat
• isezeze (izenze, siheme)
• keteriya
• kharga (kigalee)
• kodali (kodelly)
• kudi tranchang
• labrys
• Lochaber axe (Jeddart axe, Jeddart staff)
• lohar
• long-bearded axe (bearded axe, skeggöx)
• masakari (鉞)
• mattock
• nzappa zap (kasuyu, zappozap)
• ono
• palstave
• palta
• parashu (parasu, parusa)
• pickaxe
• pollaxe
• récade
• sagaris (Scythian axe)
• selepe (silepe)
• shepherd's axe (cekanka, ciupaga, fokos, rabanica, uobuszek, valaška)
• shoka
• sickle
  • arit
  • celurit (sabit)
  • kama (劆 / かま)
  • natagama
• tabar
• tabar zin
• tapar
• throwing axe
• tobiguchi
• toki
• tomahawk
  • Missouri war hatchet
  • modern tomahawk (R&D Hawk, tactical tomahawk, Vietnam tomahawk, VTAC)
  • pipe tomahawk
  • spontoon tomahawk
• topor
• tumi
• tungi (tangi, tongi, tongia)
  • four-pointed tungi
  • two-pointed tungi
• venmuroo
• zaghnal (crowbill, tabar-zaghnol, zaghnol)
  • hoolurge

Sticks and Staves

• batang (galah, galah panjang, tongkat)
• bō (bo, hanbō, kon, kyūshakubō, rokushakubō, tenbin)
  • jō (* tanjō)
• bong
  • jangbong
• cane
• canne de combat
• Chinese staffs
  • gùn (棍)
    • bāguàqīxīnggān (八卦七星甘 / Bagua seven star rod)
    • báilángān
    • bāxiāngùn (eight fairy staff)
    • biāngān
    • fēngmógùn (瘋魔棍 / mad demon staff)
    • hóugùn (猴棍 / monkey staff)
    • nángùn (南棍 / southern staff)
    • [qimeigun] (eyebrow height staff)
    • tàijídàgǎn (太極大甘 / Taiji quarterstaff)
    • tàijígùn (太極棍 / Taiji staff)
    • tàijíshísāngǎn (太極十三甘 / Taiji staff of thirteen)
    • tiānqígùn (Tianqi staff)
    • wǔhǔqúnyánggùn (五虎X群棍 / staff of five tigers and goat herds)
• chub
• eku
• hanbo
• eskrima stick
• gonbang
• hanbo
• ko'oko'o (ko'oko'o loa, ko'oko'o pokole)
• marati
• naboot (asa, asaya, nabboot, shoum)
• otta
• pahoa ko'oko'o
• plong
• pugil stick
• quarterstaff ( bâton français)
• shakujo (ringed staff)
• shareeravadi (cheruvadi, muchen)
• shillelagh
• silambam (chilambamboo)
• tambo (dan bong, tanbō)
• toya
• yagyūzue

Spears

• Ahlspiess (awl pike, breach pike, candeliere)
• andarma (bar-nga)
• banot
• bear spear (bärenspieß, rogatina)
• bident
• boar spear (chiavarina)
• Bohemian earspoon (Böhmischer Ohrlöffel, Knebelspiess, lugged spear, ušatá sudlice)
• brandistock (buttafuore, feather staff)
• Chinese spears
  • bǐ (筆 / brush / pen)
    • pànguānbǐ (判官筆 / judge's brush, [fuyuanbi], 狀元筆 / zhuàngyuánbǐ / scholar's brush)
  • jiǔchǐ (九尺 / nine-chi rod)
  • máo (矛 / Chinese lance)
    • qiúmáo (酋矛 / chieftain spear)
    • yímáo (夷矛 / barbarian spear)
    • Spear of Fuchai / 吳王夫差矛 / wúwángfūchāimáo)
  • qīang (槍 / Chinese spear)
    • gōuliánqiāng (鉤鐮槍 / hooked spear / hook sickle spear)
    • huāqiāng (花槍 / flower spear)
    • jiànqīang (剑槍 / sharp-pointed spear / sword spear)
    • [liandaoqiang] (single hook spear)
    • shéqīang (蛇槍 / snake spear)
    • shuāngtóuqīang (雙頭槍 / double headed spear)
  • shū (殳 / Chinese long spear / long pole / twelve-chi rod / thirteen-chi rod, 丈二 / zhàng-èr)
  • shuò (槊 / Chinese long lance / eighteen-chi tapered rod, 矛槊 / máoshuò)
    • [hengshuo] steelyard arm lance
    • lángyáshuò (狼牙槊 / wolf fang lance]
    • shǒushuò (手槊 / hand lance / finger-shaped lance)
    • quánshuò (權槊 / weighted lance)
    • [zaoyangshuo] (head shaped lance]
    • zhǎngshuò (掌槊 / palm lance / palm-shaped lance)
• chang
  • dajichang
  • dangpa (cheolpa, dangpachang, mokpa)
  • dongyemochang
  • gichang (danchang)
  • jangchang
  • jukjangchang
  • nangseon (nangseonchang)
  • sabarichang
• dory
• dung
• fangkao (fangkaw)
• geldon
• harpoon
  • agligak (agiligak)
  • one flue harpoon
  • pinta
  • toggling harpoon
  • two flue harpoon
• hasta
• ihe
• Javanese spears
  • benang
  • biring lanang
  • dapoer gada
  • djankoeng
  • loekoela
  • pandawa
  • ron pring
  • sadak
  • sapit abon
  • tatok
  • tjatjing
  • toenggoel watingi
• javelin (short spear)
  • aklys (aclys, agkulis)
  • angon (anga, ango)
  • aora
  • ascona
  • assegai (assagay, azegaya, zaġāya, zagaye)
  • ballam
  • bandang
  • bhala
  • bhindipala
  • bilari
  • boffrum lange
  • budiak
  • cateia
  • chimbane
  • dart (venablo)
  • Decatan lange
  • do-war
  • djerid (değnek, deynek, diğnek, jarid, jered, jerid)
  • egchos
  • enhero
  • falarica
  • falfeg (fal-feg, sinalawatan)
  • frakka ( Gungnir)
  • france
  • ger (gae, gaesum, gaesus, gar, geirr)
  • golo
  • granggang
  • gravo
  • hak
  • hinyan
  • huata
  • iklwa
  • irpull
  • ja-mandehi
  • jaculum (iaculum)
  • jereed (cirit, jerid, jerreed, jerrid)
  • jiboru
  • kadji
  • kan-shoka
  • kannai
  • kasita
  • kobe (auabubuti, ikobe, kakae, karaun)
  • koyuan
  • kujolio (kunjolio)
  • laange
  • lance-ague
  • lancea
  • lanza
  • larna-pe
  • longche
  • mahee
  • makrigga
  • mandehi liguje
  • mesangylon
  • mkukt
  • mongile
  • mongoli
  • mu-rongal
  • nandum
  • nerau
  • paralyzer (paralyser)
  • patisthanaya
  • pelta
  • pill
  • pillara
  • pilum
  • plumbata (plumbatae, plumbatum)
  • sang
  • sangkoh
  • sangu
  • sanokat
  • shail
  • shanen kopaton
  • shuanggousi (double hook arrow)
  • siligis
  • simbilan
  • sinan
  • sligi
  • soliferrum (saunion)
  • spiculum
  • Sudanese lance
  • sulica
  • tahr ruan
  • tao (inc. tao valu fua, tala-o-le-lo)
  • tawok
  • telempang
  • tirrer
  • tjio
  • tjunkuletti
  • tombak
  • tschehouta
  • tuf-ay (tufuy)
  • tumpuling
  • vel
  • verutum
  • wainian
  • wakara
  • wallunka
  • wi-valli
• kai manga
• lance
  • allar (allarh)
  • anguvigang
  • barcha (barcha, barchah, barchcha, barchi, barsha, burcha)
  • chuqui
  • jida
  • jousting lance
  • kontos (contus, kontarion)
  • spontoon
  • tchá tche shě (Lipan Apache lance)
  • te rairai (rairai)
  • xyston (sistan)
• menaulion (menaulon, menavion)
• nagni barcha (snake spear)
• ox tongue spear (langdebeve, langue de boeuf)
• pandi ballam (Indian boar spear)
• panjmukh
• pike (footman's lance)
  • sarissa (sarisa)
• pololū
• raau parau
• rochin
• sanku
• sibat (bangkaw, palupad, sumbiling)
• spear
• spike bayonet
• stingray spear
• sumpi
• to'oto'o
  • to'oto'o fa'atala lau paongo
• trident
  • gig
  • leister
  • trishula (serampang, trisula)
• uai
• yari (inc. Nihongo, Otegine, Tonbogiri)
  • fukuro yari
  • kagi yari
  • kuda yari
  • makura yari
  • nage yari
  • sankaku yari
  • su yari
  • te yari

Polearms

• arbir
• atgeir (atgeirr, hewing-spear, höggspjót, kesja, krókspjót, Viking halberd)
• bardiche
• bill (bill-guisarme, black-bill, brown-bill, English bill, forest bill, trinquebasson)
  • Welsh hook
• bisentō (眉尖刀)
• Brogit staff
• cangkul (tajak)
• catchpole
• chakok
• chacing staff
• Chinese polearms
  • bā (扒 / rake)
    • • nánfāngdàbā (南方大扒 / southern large rake)
  • bǐ (筆 / brush / pen)
    • bǐ[zhua] (筆X / brush attacker)
    • tóngquán (銅拳 / brass fist)
  • chā (叉 / Chinese war fork)
    • chāgǎn (叉桿 / fork staff, inc. 雙叉桿 / shuāng chā gǎn / double fork staff)
    • duǎnchā (短叉 / short fork)
    • dùntóuchā (鈍頭叉 / blunt head fork)
    • fēichā (飛叉 / flying fork)
    • gāngchā (鋼叉 / steel fork)
    • héchā (河叉 / river fork)
    • hǔchā (虎叉 / tiger fork, 牛头叉 / niútóuchā / ox head fork)
    • huǒchā (火叉 / fire fork)
    • liǎngjiānchā (两尖叉 / two point fork / two tooth fork, 牛角叉 / niújiǎochā / ox horn fork)
    • lóngxūchā (龍鬚叉 / dragon whisker fork)
    • mǎchā (馬叉 / horse fork)
    • [wen]chā (scholar fork)
  • chǎn (鏟 / shovel / spade)
    • jīnzhōngchǎn (金鐘鏟 / gum jun chahn / gold bell spade / golden bell shovel)
    • jīnqiánchǎn (金錢鏟 / gun chihn chaan / gold coin spade / golden coin shovel
      • dàtóujīnqiánchǎn / 大頭金錢鏟 / big head gold coin spade)
      • xiǎotóujīnqiánchǎn / 小頭金錢鏟 / small head gold coin spade)
    • jiǔlóngdānpiànchǎn / 九龍單片鏟 / seven dragon single edge shovel
    • yuèyáchǎn (月牙鏟 / crescent moon spade / moon tooth spade, monk spade)
  • chánzhàng (禅仗 / Zen staff)
  • [changjianqian] (long-handled pincer)
  • [chun]jié (X節 / tree knot)
  • chútóu (鋤頭 / Chinese hoe, 把頭 / bǎtóu)
  • dàlián / 大鐮 / large sickle / long-handled sickle)
  • dēngzhàng (燈仗 / lamp staff)
  • fóshǒu (佛手 / fut sao / Buddha hand)
  • gē (戈 / dagger-axe / L-shaped halberd / flat-head halberd)
  • guāndāo (關刀 / kwan dao / kwanto / quandao / Guan Yu's saber, elephant knife, 青龍偃月刀 / qīnglóngyǎnyuèdāo / green dragon crescent moon blade, 偃月刀 / yǎnyuèdāo / crescent moon blade / reclining moon blade)
  • huǒgōu (火鉤 / fire hook)
  • hùntiānlù (混天戮 / stirring heaven killer)
  • jǐ (戟 / Chinese halberd)
    • fāngjǐ (方戟 / rectangular halberd)
    • qīnglóngjǐ (青龍戟 / blue dragon halberd)
    • shélóngjǐ (蛇龍戟 / snake dragon halberd)
  • láng[xian] (狼X / wolf brush)
  • liè[qian] (烈X / fierce pincers)
  • tiānhéfēngwěitán (天河風尾X / heaven lotus wind tail tan)
  • pá (耙 / Chinese rake)
    • dīngpá (釘耙 / iron rake)
    • jiǔchǐdīngpá (九齒釘耙 / nine tooth iron rake)
  • tāng (鏜)
  • tǎng (鎲 / trident-halberd)
    • fèngchìtǎng (鳳翅鎲 / phoenix wing trident-halberd)
    • jùchǐtǎng (鋸齒鎲 / saw tooth trident-halberd)
    • niútóutǎng (牛头鎲 / ox head trident-halberd)
    • yànchìtǎng (燕翅鎲 / swallow wing trident-halberd)
  • xiàngbízǐdāo (象鼻子刀 / elephant nose saber)
  • yīngtóudāo (鷹頭刀 / eagle head sword / ying tao dao)
• fauchard (fauchard-fork)
• galgorichang
• glaive (glaive-guisarme)
• goedendag
• guisarme (bisarme, gisarme, giserne)
• halberd (halbard, halbert, hippe, scorpion, Swiss voulge)
  • Scottish halberd
  • Swiss halberd
• hongkiam-kek
• hwa-kek
• hyeopdo (俠刀 / 협도 / hyup do / leaf saber, micheomdo)
• kuwa
• lajatang
• linstock
• man catcher
  • chang jiao qian (long-handled pincer)
• military fork (fork, war fork)
• neolbjakchang (nulbjakchang, wide spear)
• naginata
  • tsukushi-naginata
• ngaw
• nunti (nunti-bo)
• parashu
• partisan
  • corseque (chauve-souris, corsèsque, korseke, three-grained staff)
  • ranseur (rawcon, runka)
  • spetum
• penchakar
• plançon a picot (planson)
• pole axe (fuss-streitaxt, pollaxe)
• military rake
  • ba
  • tang
• rhomphaia
• roundhead
• sasumata (futomata yari)
• scythe
• siege hook
• sjang sutai
• sparth (sparr)
• sovnya
• swordstaff (svärdstav)
• taiaha
• taumangaria (shark-tooth long spear, te taumangaria, te unum, unum, unun)
• tepoztopilli
• topjang
• tsukubo
• tupa yauri (Inca halberd)
• voulge (pole cleaver, vouge, voulge-guisarme)
• war scythe
• woldo (月刀 / 월도 / moon sword, **danwoldo / 端月刀 / 단월도 / dahn wol do / crescent moon sword)
  • yangjimochang
• yari
  • Bishamon yari
  • hoko yari
  • jumonji yari
  • kagi yari
  • kama yari
  • katakama
  • Kikuchi yari
  • magari yari
  • su yari
  • tsuki nari yari
  • yajiri nari yari

Flexible and Composite Weapons

• baculus (Hercules staff)
• buntot pagi
• chain whip (節鞭 / jiébiān / sectional whip)
  • wǔjiébiān (五節鞭 / ku liong piam / ng jie bien / tjit piat nuipiam / five-section whip)
  • jiǔjiébiān (七節鞭 / seven-section whip)
  • qījiébiān (九節鞭 / gau jie bien / nine-section whip)
  • sānjiébiān (三節鞭 / three-section whip)
  • shuǐmógāngbiān (水磨鋼鞭 / water mill steel whip)
  • zhújiégāngbiān (竹節鋼鞭 / bamboo joint steel whip)
• chakar
• chigiriki
• crop
  • nagaika
• ekor pari
• flagellum
• flail (ball and chain, fléau d'armes, Kriegsflegel, war flail)
  • cumberjung (quoit flail)
  • grain flail
  • holy water sprinkler (Hercules club, Morgenstern, morning-star flail)
  • military flail
• flying guillotine (xuèdī zǐ)
• fundonawa
• [ganzibian] (stick soft whip)
• garrote
• gekigan
  • ka'ane
• kabastin
• kaginawa
• kurbash (kurbaj)
• kusari-fundo (fundogusari, ryofundo)
• kusarigama
  • Okinawan kusarigama
• kyoketsu-shoge
• lasso (lariat)
• lathi
• lóng[gouganbang] (dragon head whip club)
• lóngxūchā (龍鬚叉 / dragon beard hook)
• manriki
• manriki-gusari
• martinet
• liúxīngchuí (流星錘 / meteor hammer / comet star hammer, 飛槌 / fēichuí / flying maul, [zouxian]chuí / long thread maul)
  • fēigōu (飛鉤 / flying hook)
  • fēizhuā (飛抓 / flying claw)
  • liúxīngtáng (流星樘 / meteor trident-halberd)
  • lóngzhuā (龍抓 / dragon claw)
  • méizhuā (梅抓 / plum flower claw)
  • ruǎnchuí (軟錘 / soft hammer)
• nagyka
• nunchaku (èrjiégùn, jool bong, 兩節棍 / liǎngjiégùn / lianjagun / liangtjat)
  • cangue staff (folianjia, liánjiā, shaozi, shaozigun)
  • pyeongon
  • tabak-toyok (chako)
  • two section staff (chang xiao bian)
• petjat (pecat)
• pikoi
• rantai
• rebenque
• sarong (chindai, linso, samping)
• shéngbiāo (繩鏢 / suk piao / suobiao / jōhyō / rope dart / rope javelin)
• sijietang (tang sickle, tanglian, three section tang)
• slapjack
• slungshot
• surujin
• switch
• tamazue (tamabō)
• teken
• three-section staff (coiling dragon staff, sa tjat koen, sānjiégùn, saam1 zit3 gwan3, sansetsukon)
• tielianjiabang (iron chain link staff)
• urumi (aara, chuttuval, chuttuwal, surul pattal)
• whip
  • bullwhip
  • cambuk (cemeti, chemeti, tjambuk)
  • cat o' nine tails
  • knout
  • quirt
  • scourge
  • sjambok
  • stockwhip
• yumiorezue

Combination Hand Weapons

• èrrénduó / 二人奪 / Chinese sword-stick
• [qingrenba]
• sword cane

Fist Weapons and Miscellaneous Hand Weapons

• bagh nakh (tiger claw)
• bankoku choki
• bichawa (bich wa, bich'hwa, bichwa, bichwaa)
• brass knuckles (brass knucks, knuckle duster, knuckles, knucks)
• cestus (bladed cestus, myrmex, sphairai)
• chakram (cakera, chakkar)
• chánchìdāo (蟬 翅刀 / chanzidao / cicada wing blade / cicada wing sword, butterly wing sword)
• deer horn knives (deer antler saber, deer hook sword, lùjiǎodāo, riyue qiankun jian, zi-wu mandarin duck axe, ziwu yuanyang yue)
• fakir's horns
• fighting bracelet
• finger knife
• gauntlet
• gōngtiānshū (宮天梳 / palace heaven comb)
• handclaws
• hayatejo
• jiǎndāochǐ (剪刀尺 / scissors-and-ruler)
• kakute (kakushi, kakushu, kakuwa)
  • gohontsuno
  • sanbontsuno
  • senninriki
  • senriki
  • shihontsuno
  • temanriki
• katara (Bundi dagger, katar, kattari, scissors katar, suwaiya, suwayah, suwayyah)
  • jamdhar doulicaneh (jamdhar sehlicaneh)
  • jamdhar katari (jamadhara, jamdhar, jumdud, yamadhra)
• [kuahulan] (cross tiger block)
• kubotan
• lei-o-mano (ku'eku'e lima lei-o-mano, lei-o-mano puka)
• manople (gauntlet-sword, Moorish boarding sword)
• muai cad chuke (cord wrap)
• nyepel (Larim fighting bracelet)
• pata
• push dagger (gimlet knife)
• Roman scissor
• shobo
• srbosjek (cutthroat)
• suntetsu
• qiánkūnrìyuèdāo (乾坤日月刀 / heaven-and-earth sun-and-moon sword, 乾坤刀 / qiánkūndāo / heaven-and-earth sword)
• tegiribo
• tekagi-shuko (neko-te, shuko, tekagi)
• tekko (abumi)
• tenouchi
  • dokko
• ulu
• vajra
• weighted-knuckle gloves (sap gloves)
• wind and fire wheels
  • xiùlǐjiàn (袖里剑 / shou li jen / xiou li jian / hidden blade / sleeve sword)
• yawara (柔 / yawara stick, dulodulo, pasak)
• yubibō (指棒 / finger staff)
• yuèyácì (月牙刺 / moon tooth sting)

Foot Weapons

• ashiko
• shoe knife

Shields

• adal (Biak shield)
• adarga (adaga, adargue)
• aegis
• aspis (hoplon)
• bronze shield (inc. Battersea Shield, Wandsworth Shield, Witham Shield, Yetholm-type shield)
• buckler
• cakalele (o dadatoko, sawako)
• chimalli
• Chinese shields
  • dùn (盾)
    • fēnshuǐdùn (分水盾 / parting water shield)
  • pái (棑)
• clipeus (clipeus virtutis)
• da’lkái (énda ‘lkai)
• deungpae
• dhal
• heater shield
• hielaman (hielamon)
• Hungarian shield
• ishlangu
• jamasj (Asmat war shield)
• kalasag
• kite shield
• lantern shield
• madu (madhu, maru)
• mantlet
• parma (parmula)
• pavise
• pendulum shield
• peltarion (pelta, pelte)
• perisai (jebang)
• riot shield
  • ballistic shield (Batshield, Body Bunker, tactical shield)
• rondache (roundel)
• saintie (sainti)
• sba phub
• scutum
• spara
• targe (targa, target) (inc. Prince Charlie's Targe)
• tari (Humboldt Bay shoulder shield)
• thureos

Improvised Weapons

• 2x4
• alpenstock
• assistive cane
• awl
  • bradawl
  • scratch awl
  • stitching awl
• axe
  • adze (adz)
  • felling axe
  • fire axe (firefighter's axe) (inc. Halligan bar, Kelly tool)
  • hatchet
  • ice axe (climbing axe)
  • mortising axe (bisaiguë)
  • pulaski
  • slater's axe
  • splitting axe
  • zax
• bark spud
• baseball bat
• beer bottle
• beer stein
• belaying pin
• bench
• bicycle chain
• branch
• brick
• brickbat
• broom
• Bulgarian umbrella
• cant hook (boat hook)
• carabiner
• carpet beater (carpet duster, carpet whip, clothes beater, clothes whip, dust beater, mattenklopper, rug beater, rug duster)
• chainlock (smiley)
• chainsaw
• cricket bat
• crooked knife (mocotaugan)
• chopsticks (筷子 / kuàizi)
• crowbar (gooseneck, iron crow, jemmy, jimmy, jimmy bar, prise bar, prisebar, pry bar, prybar, wrecking bar)
• cymbal (鈸 / bó / ba, 鐃 / náo)
• diamond knife
• dumbbell
• electric knife (electric carving knife)
• femur
• fire extinguisher
• fishing gaff
• flashlight ( Kel-Lite, Maglite)
• flute
  • shakuhachi
  • xiāo (簫 / 笛 / dí, 鐵笛 / tiědí / iron flute)
• fork
• froe club
• frying pan
• glass bottle
• golf club
• grappling hook
  • harpago (harpage kreagra)
  • lupus ferreus
• grindaknívur (whaling knife)
• hakapik
• hammer
  • ball-peen hammer
  • bush hammer
  • claw hammer
  • dead blow hammer
  • framing hammer
  • geologist's hammer (geological pick, rock hammer, rock pick, stonemason's hammer)
  • lump hammer (club hammer)
  • mallet
  • reflex hammer
  • slater's hammer
  • sledgehammer
  • spike maul
  • splitting maul (block buster, block splitter, wood maul)
  • upholstery hammer (tack hammer)
• hedge trimmer
• hockey stick
• hoe
• honing steel
• hori hori (gardening knife, soil knife)
• ice pick ( leucotome, orbitoclast)
• Indian club (mugdar)
• kendama
• kiseru
• kitchen knife
  • boning knife
  • bread knife
  • càidāo (菜刀 / cleaver)
  • carving knife
  • chef's knife
  • cimeter
  • cleaver
  • deba bocho
  • Ginsu
  • grapefruit knife
  • Kinmen Knife
  • nakiri bocho
  • oyster knife
  • paring knife
  • sabatier
  • santoku
  • slicing knife
  • steak knife
  • tomato knife
  • usuba bocho
  • yanagi ba
• knife
  • blubber knife
  • Sunday knife (staskniv)
  • whittling knife (tollekniv)
• ladle
• letter opener
• light fixture (desk lamp, lava lamp, table lamp)
• mezzaluna
• Millwall brick
• mop
• monkey's fist
• oar
  • hoe (oar)
• obsidian knife
• paddle
• palette knife
• pick pole
• pickaxe handle
• pipe
• pitchfork
  • broadfork (U-bar, U-fork)
  • garden fork (digging fork, graip, spading fork)
• pool cue
• putty knife
• rake
• ramrod
• rock
• scalpel (lancet)
• scissors
• shears
  • blade shears
  • hedge shears
  • kitchen shears
  • loppers
  • pinking shears
  • pruning shears (secateurs)
• screwdriver
• shiv (chib, shank)
• shovel
  • loy
  • spade
• skillet
• skinner knife
• spirit level
• sticking knife
• straight razor (cut-throat razor, open razor)
• string trimmer (line trimmer, strimmer, weed eater, weed whacker, weed whip, weedy, whipper snipper)
• taping knife (joint knife)
• tennis racket
• tire iron
• trowel
• utility knife (box cutter, carpet knife, stationery knife, X-Acto)
• walking stick
• wrench
• yo-yo

Miscellaneous Ceremonial Weapons

• Asempatia
• athame
• boline
• caduceus
• ceremonial mace
• chhatra
• crosier
• dadar
• dhvaja
• gavel
• pace stick
• padma
• pilgrim's staff
• tipstaff
• wand

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