Long, straight-bladed swords with a grip long enough to allow them to be grasped by one hand plus two or three fingers of the other, used in the 15th and 16th centuries.
AAT
3000225638
hand-and-a-half swords
swords, bastard
swords, hand-and-a-half
13yrs ago
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