Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
adz adze | a cutting tool with an arched blade which is set at right angles to the handle. |
assagai assegaai assegai | a slender spear of hard wood tipped with iron; (verb) to kill or stab with this. |
atlatl | a Native American throwing-stick; an ancient Mexican spear-thrower. |
ax axe | a tool or weapon for cutting or chopping, having its edge and handle in the same plane; (verb) to strike with an axe. |
battleax battleaxe | a kind of axe once used in battle; a domineering, usually older woman. |
bident | a two-pronged spear. |
bident | a two-pronged spear. |
bill | a concave battle-axe with a long wooden handle. |
broadax broadaxe | a kind of battle-axe. |
celt | a prehistoric stone axehead. |
chopper | something that chops; (verb) to transfer by helicopter. |
cleaver | a butcher's chopper. |
feutre fewter | a spear-rest; (verb) to set a spear in a rest. |
fishgig fisgig fizgig | a kind of HARPOON. |
gavelock | a javelin; a crow-bar. [OE gafeluc]. |
gisarme | a long-shafted halberd with two-edged axe carried by a medieval foot soldier. |
gurlet | a PICKAXE with one pointed and one bladed end. |
halberd halbert | a PIKE with an axe-head. |
harpoon | a barbed dart or spear, esp. for killing whales; (verb) to spear with a harpoon. |
hatchet | a small axe for use in one hand. |
hatchety | like a HATCHET. |
javelin | a light spear for throwing, either as a weapon or in sport; (verb) to spear with a javelin. |
jereed jerid jerreed jerrid | a wooden Oriental javelin. |
lance | a cavalry weapon with a long shaft and a spearhead; (verb) to pierce with a lance. |
lancelike | like a lance. |
lancegay launcegaye | a kind of spear. |
lister leister | a three-pronged spear or trident used for fishing; LEISTER but not LISTER can be used as a verb: to spear with a leister. [ON ljostr]. |
mattock | a kind of PICKAXE for loosening soil, with a cutting end instead of a point. |
morne | the blunt head of a jousting LANCE. |
palstaff palstave | a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age. |
partizan | a kind of PIKE. |
pickax pickaxe | a tool with a blade and a pointed end, used for digging; (verb) to dig with a pickaxe. |
pike | a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head like a spear, formerly used by foot soldiers; (verb) to pierce with a pike. |
pikestaff | the staff, or shaft, of a pike. Pl. PIKESTAFFS or PIKESTAVES. |
pile pilum | a Roman javelin. The pl. of PILUM is PILA. |
piolet | a mountain-climbing ice axe. |
poleax poleaxe | a battle-axe consisting of an axe-head on a long handle; (verb) to strike with a POLEAXE. |
sax zax zex | a CHOPPER for trimming slate. |
sparke | (Spenser) a weapon of some kind, possibly an error for SPARTHE. |
sparth sparthe sperthe | a long battleaxe. [ON spartha]. |
spear | a long weapon made of a pole with a pointed head; (verb) to pierce with a spear. |
spearhead | the pointed head, or end, of a spear. |
sperthe | see SPARTH. |
spontoon | a kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers. |
tomahawk | a war-axe; (verb) to strike with a tomahawk. |
tomboc | a Javanese long-handled weapon. |
trident | a three-pronged spear. |
twibil twibill | a double-headed axe. |
vouge voulge | a weapon carried by foot-soldiers in the 14th century, consisting of a blade on a staff. |
womera wommera woomera woomerang | a stick for launching a spear with greater force. |