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

Crinet
Plate defence for a horse

Curette
Archaic term for a cuirass.

Combination weapon
One in which two or more types of weapon are combined in order to be used together.

Constable of the Tower
The monarch’s direct representative at the Tower of London

Coronel
A lance head, usually of iron, formed with a point in the form of three or more short blunt spikes and used in the ‘Gestech’ or joust of peace.

Cors
A staff weapon whose head is formed of one central symmetrical spear-like blade flanked by two others of almost similar size.

Couter
Elbow defence for a plate armour.

Clerk of Deliveries
Senior Officer responsible for issuing stores

Clerk of Ordnance
Senior Officer responsible for the drawing up and auditing all departmental accounts and drafting contracts

Clerk of the Works
Responsible for the facilities and buildings management of Ordnance Office and stores accommodation at Tower

Civil Establishment of the Ordnance
Permanent non-military employees of the Ordnance Office based at the Tower of London Pall Mall Woolwich or at a home or foreign station

Close helmet
A form of helmet fully enclosing the head, with a visor and bevor (or upper and lower bevors) pivoted at either side of the skull to allow the helmet to be put on or taken off, popular in the late 15th –16th centuries.

Clerk of the Establishment
Salaried official holding a permanent appointment within the Ordnance Office

Cannon
In plate armour one of the tubular defences in a Vambrace of plate either for the upper arm (upper cannon) or forearm (lower cannon).

Chief Clerk
Deputy-head of one of the Ordnance Office departments

Choji 丁子
Clove shaped of a hamon (Japan)

Chancery
Department responsible for recording the administrative business of central government and for producing official documents on its behalf

Cartridge
A tubular container holding a measured charge of gunpowder sufficient for one firing of a gun. It might or might not also contain a lead ball or other projectile.

Burgonet
An open faced helmet with hinged cheekpieces often worn with a buffe.

Burgonion Cross
The Burgundian Cross; a crest formed of two ragged or rustic wooden staves behind a fire-steel.

Bushi 武士
Member of the military class (Japan)

Buckler
A small circular shield.

Buffe
A defence of plate for the throat and front of the face used in the 16th century with a burgonet.

Boshi 帽子
Shape of the hamon within the kissaki of a blade (Japan)

Board of Ordnance
The supervisory body created in responsible for the daily management of the Ordnance Office

Brow plate
A reinforcing plate at the upper front of a helmet.

Breastplate
The front plate of a cuirass worn with a backplate.

Brigandine
A defence of iron plates riveted inside a fabric doublet, popular in the 15th–early 16th centuries.

Bevor
A defence of plate for the throat and front of the face worn in the 15th century with a sallet as a separate defence in the 16th century as an integral part of a close helmet.

Bishamon gote 毘沙門篭手
Armoured sleeves with a shoulder guard permanently attached to the upper arm (Japan)

Bill
A staff weapon with a long hooked blade sharpened on the inside and often with an additional spike on the back and at the top. Derived from the agricultural implement of the same name.

Bellows visor
A form of visor embossed with horizontal ridges hence resembling a bellows popular in the early 16th century.

Backplate
The rear plate of a cuirass worn with a breastplate.

Ballock dagger
One whose hilt is in the form of male genitalia.

Bacinet
A form of helmet protecting the skull of the head, worn with an aventail of mail protecting the throat and neck, and often with a plate visor, from the 13th–early 15th century, which evolved into the great bacinet.

Bard
Defence of plate mail or other forms of armour for a horse.

Base
A pleated skirt of rich fabric worn as part of male costume often with armour or of plate and part of an armour fashionable in the early 16th century.

Basilisk
A large type of cannon usually of bronze and of considerable length in proportion to the diameter of its bore.

Basket hilt
A sword hilt formed of a network of iron strips or bars forge welded together to form a guard enveloping the hand of the user.

Assistant Clerk
Lowest-ranking clerical officer of the Civil establishment

Armourer
Craftsman normally responsible for carrying out minor repairs, cleaning, oiling and polishing armour

Armoury Ticket Office
Located at western entrance to Tower of London where tickets were purchased by visitors wishing to view the Tower Armouries

Armet
A form of helmet fully enclosing the head, with cheekpieces at either side which fasten together at the front and allow the helmet to be put on or taken off, and a visor, popular in the 15th–early 17th centuries.

Agemaki 総角
Ornate bow tied in a square knot attached to the back of an armour (Japan)

Aikuchi 匕首
Dagger without a guard (Japan)

Akoda nari kabuto 阿古陀形兜
Form of helmet with a bulbous swelling at the upper rear of the skull (Japan)

Almain rivet
A light half armour of plate for infantry usually made in Germany popular in the early–mid 16th century

Anime
A form of cuirass made of narrow horizontal plates or lames articulated together inside either with rivets or leathers or a combination of both to allow the wearer some movement popular in the middle of the 16th century.