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Royal Armouries - medieval weaponry Category: History and Culture > Medieval warfare Date & country: 04/09/2015, UK Words: 348

Sageo 下げ緒
Flat braid used to tie the sword into the sash (Japan)

Saker
One of the lighter types of artillery barrel usually of cast bronze. Named after the saker a large species of falcon.

Sane
Scale or lamella (Japan)

Sashimono
Small flag attached to the rear of an armour (Japan)

Rondel
A circular disk. In plate armour often attached to an armet to protect the strap of the wrapper or to a manifer or shaffron.

Ryo takahimo dō
Cuirass made in two sections fastened with ties at either side (Japan)

Sasumata 刺股
Forked spear (Japan)

Saya 鞘
Scabbard (Japan)

Same 鮫
Ray skin used on the sides of the hilt under the binding (Japan)

Samurai
Military retainers of a feudal lord (Japan)

Roku mai dō 六板筒
Cuirass divided into six sections (Japan)

Royal Artillery
Regiment of artillerymen formed in 1716 whose commander-in-chief was the Master-General of the Ordnance until the abolition of the Ordnance Office in 1855 when it was fully integrated into British armed forces

Royal Laboratory
Ordnance department based at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich responsible for the development and manufacture of ammunition

Royal Carriage Department
Ordnance department based at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich responsible for the production of gun carriages

Royal Arsenal
Ordnance establishment located at Woolwich on the south bank of the Thames responsible for developing manufacturing proofing and storing arms and ammunition and educating military cadets

Ricasso
A blunted area of rectangular section formed in a sword or dagger blade adjacent to the hilt.

Royal Military Repository
Museum established at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich in 1778.

Royal Military Academy
Part of the military establishment of the Ordnance Office based at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich responsible for educating and training gentlemen cadets to become officers of the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers
Regiment of military engineers formed in 1717 whose commander-in-chief was the Master-General of the Ordnance until the abolition of the Ordnance Office in 1855 when it was fully integrated into British armed forces

Record Office
Responsible for the care historic documents of the crown law courts and central government at the Tower of London

Renjaku
Heavy silk cords inside the shoulder straps of a do acting as a form of suspension (Japan)

Raguly crosses
Raguly is the heraldic term for ragged meaning rustic. See Burgonion Cross.

Quillon
A guard projecting from the hilt of a sword or dagger usually at 90 degrees to the centre line of the blade at the point where the sword and hilt meet.

Punchion spear
A type of spear with a head in the form of a spike suitable only for thrusting.

Principal Storekeeper
Senior Officer responsible for managing all stores issuing contracts conducting surveys of stores

Privy Wardrobe
The royal department responsible for storing the monarch’s personal possessions particularly arms armour and other military equipment

Pointill
A technique usually on metal of using lines of finely punched dots to created decorative motifs.

Pollaxe
A staff weapon with a striking part in the form of an axe blade or a rectangular or triangular group of three or four short spikes. The back of the head has a short spike or a serrated hammer face while the top of the head is fitted with a thrusting spike

Poleyn
Plate defence for the knee.

Port piece
A wrought iron breech-loading artillery piece.

Plackart
Reinforcing breastplate worn over the breastplate often for the Tournament.

Pike
A long staff weapon up to 18 feet (6m) long with a small iron head and capable only of being used to thrust. Often used by closely ranked bodies of infantry.

Peytral
Plate defence for a horse

Ordnance
Arms and associated military equipment

Pasguard
Plate reinforce for the left elbow worn with tilt armour.

Pauldron
Plate defence for the shoulder with wings extending over the cuirass at front and rear.

Pall Mall
Central London location of the Board of Ordnance the Secretary’s department and the department of the Inspector-General of Fortifications

Partizan
A staff weapon with a long symmetrical two-edged thrusting blade at the base of which are two short upward-curved wings or lugs.

Ordnance Office
The government department responsible for the supply and procurement of military supplies to British forces and for the construction and maintenance of military establishments in Britain and abroad

Ordnance Messenger
Responsible for delivering messages between the Tower Pall Mall and other Ordnance Office establishments

Ordnance Labourer
General support staff assigned to different Ordnance departments

Ordnance Survey
Initially part of the Ordnance Office and based at the Tower of London this department developed from the surveying activities of Royal Engineers and Corps of Military Surveyors in the eighteenth century until it was established as a government department

Office-Keeper
Responsible for general facilities management in Tower Offices and at Pall Mall

Oda gote
Armoured sleeves with gourd-shaped plates sewn on the upper and lower arm (Japan)

Odoshi 縅
Lacing (Japan)

Ni mai do 二板筒
Cuirass divided into two sections front and rear (Japan)

Nock
The horn tip found on either end of a longbow to protect the wood from the chafing of the bowstring or; the notch in the rear end of an arrow to enable it to be fitted to a bowstring.

Observatory
Traditionally thought to have been located briefly in the north-east Tower of the White Tower where John Flamsteed took astronomical observations in 1675

Nagaye
Spear shaft (Japan)

Naginata
Glaive (Japan)

Nakagawa
Rows of lameller armour encircling the torso (Japan)

Mune-ita 胸板
Plate covering the upper chest (Japan)

Menagerie
Collection of exotic and wild birds and animals kept at the Tower of London until the early 19th century

Mint
Institution responsible for the manufacture of coinage based at the Tower of London from the late 13th century to the early 19th century

Military Establishment of the Ordnance
Members of the Royal Artillery Royal Engineers and Gentlemen Cadets (Royal Military Academy)

Mon 紋
Heraldic device see kamon (Japan)

Mogami haramaki
Style of armour in which the plates are individually hinged (Japan)

Manifer
Plate reinforce for the left hand and forearm worn with tilt armour.

Makura yari
Short ‘pillow’ spear (Japan)

Maedate 前立
Fore-crest attached to a helmet (Japan)

Magari yari
Spear with additional branching blade (Japan)

Mempo 面頬
Face mask (Japan)

Master General of Ordnance
Head of the Ordnance Office and commanding officer of the Military Establishment of the Ordnance Office appointed by royal letters patent

Match cord
A twisted hemp cord impregnated with saltpetre (potassium nitrate) enabling it to smoulder evenly when lit to provide ignition for hand-held firearms or artillery pieces.

Match lock
A mechanical device fitted to the side of a firearm to hold a piece of match cord and on pulling a trigger to place the smouldering end of the cord into the pan to ignite the priming powder and fire the gun.

Maximilian
A modern term applied to fluted armour of a style which became popular in German lands in the early 16th century when Maximilian I was Holy Roman Emperor inspired by the narrow pleating of civilian clothes fashionable at that time.

Lower Cannon
Plate defence for the forearm see cannon.

Locking Gauntlet
A plate gauntlet used in the tourney in which the finger-plates were fastened to an extension of the inner cuff plate locking a weapon in the hand.

List of Candidates
List of prospective candidates for employment maintained on behalf of the Master General of Ordnance

Lieutenant General of Ordnance
Deputy-head of the Ordnance Office and officer responsible for Royal Military Academy and Royal Laboratory

Lames
Small plates of iron or steel used in a plate armour for protecting articulated joints or sections joined by rivets or internal leathers either to larger plate components or to other lames (see anime for example).

Kuda yari
Spear pipe hand guard for a spear (Japan)

Kuri jiri
Chestnut-shaped tang end (Japan)

Kyudo 弓道
Archery (Japan)

Lantern shot
An anti-personnel artillery round. A tubular container made of slats of wood which was filled with sharp stones. It was designed to break up on firing causing the stones to spread out and cause the maximum damage to opposing troops.

Kurigata 栗形
Projection on the face of the scabbard to hold a braid tie (Japan)

Kusari 鎖
Mail (Japan)

Kusazuri 草摺
Defence for the hips and thighs suspended from the lower edge of the cuirass see also gessan (Japan)

Kuwagata 鍬形
Horn-like fore-crest attached to a helmet (Japan)

Kogai 笄
Instrument for dressing the hair carried in a pocket on the face of a scabbard (Japan)

Ko maru 小丸
Boshi with a small turnback of the hamon within the kissaki (Japan)

Kogatana 小刀
Small utility knife carried in a pocket on the face of a scabbard (Japan)

Koshira-e 拵え
Sword mountings (Japan), also tōsōgu 刀装具

Koshi zori 腰反
Blade with the deepest part of the curve nearest the tang (Japan)

Koiguchi 鯉口
Scabbard throat (Japan) often with a horn fitting.

Kojiri
Tip of the scabbard (Japan)

Koshi ate 腰當
Pad to protect the left hip from rubbing by the sword (Japan)

Kohire 小ひれ
Armoured flaps attached to the shoulder straps (Japan)

Kikko 亀甲
‘Tortoise shell’, type of brigandine of hexagonal plates sewn inside fabric (Japan)

Kozane 小札
Armour scale (Japan)

Kozuka 小柄
Hilt of a utility knife (Japan)

Kote 篭手
Armoured sleeve (Japan)

Koto 古刀
Sword made before 1600 (Japan)

Koshimaki 腰巻
‘Waist band’, band riveted to the base of the helmet skull (Japan)

Kissaki 切先
The point section of a blade (Japan), usually described as ko (small), chu (medium) or ō (large)

Kaji 鍛冶
Swordsmith (Japan)

Kabuto 兜
Helmet (Japan)

Kaen Boshi
Resembling flames (Japan)

Kabuto gane
Tachi style pommel cap (Japan)

Ken 剣
Double edged straight sword (Japan) see jian (China)