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... a long blade in line with the shaft, sharpened on both sides and ending in a point, though the description in zogff appears to distinguish the greyn (spike) from the blade.

Calendar of Coroners Rolls of the City of London, A.D. 1300-1378 - Page 60
edited by - 1913 - 324 pages
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Dutch Romances: Ferguut

David Frame Johnson, Geert H. M. Claassens - 2000 - 280 pages

...Chretien's Perceval. 881. A gisarme is a weapon akin to a battle-axe. According to the OED, sv gisarme: "A kind of battle-axe, bill, or halberd, having a...shaft, sharpened on both sides and ending in a point." See also 4223 , where it seems to be distinguished from an axe. 903. Rombauts et al. print tinen. MS:...

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