The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

GLAIVE

The glaive was mainly a herald's weapon. It consisted of a blade with an arched cutting edge elongated into a point fixed to a pole. On the blunt back-edge of the blade there was usually a hook, straight or curved or crescent-shaped, and on the base of the blade triangular projections. By the mid 16th century the glaive had become obsolete as a combat weapon.
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