Editing Polearm (section)

===Later polearms===
====European====
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* [[Bardiche]]
* [[Bec de Corbin]]
* [[Bill (weapon)|Bill]]
* [[Bohemian earspoon]]
* [[Brandistock]]
* [[Lochaber axe]]
* [[Lucerne hammer]]
* [[Military fork]]
* [[Partisan (weapon)|Partisan]]
* [[Pike (weapon)|Pike]]
* [[Ranseur]]
* [[Scottish polearms]]
* [[Sovnya]]
* [[Spetum]]
* [[Viking halberd]]
* [[War scythe]]
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=====Corseque=====
{{Main|Corseque}}

A ''corseque'' has a three-bladed head on a {{convert|6|–|8|ft|m|abbr=on}} haft which, like the [[partisan (weapon)|partisan]], is similar to the winged spear or [[spetum]] in the later Middle Ages.<ref>{{cite book |title=Treasures from the Tower of London : Arms and Armour |last=Norman |first=A. V. B. |author2=Wilson, G. M. |year=1982 |publisher=Lund Humphries |location=London |isbn=0-946009-01-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/treasuresfromtow0000unse/page/67 67] |url=https://archive.org/details/treasuresfromtow0000unse/page/67 }}</ref> It was popular in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Surviving examples have a variety of head forms but there are two main variants, one with the side blades (known as flukes or wings) branching from the neck of the central blade at 45 degrees, the other with hooked blades curving back towards the haft. The corseque is usually associated with the '''rawcon''', [[ranseur]] and '''runka'''. Another possible association is with the "three-grayned staff"<ref>'''Grayned''' meaning '''bladed'''</ref> listed as being in the armoury of Henry VIII in 1547<ref>Norman & Wilson (1982), p.67</ref> (though the same list also features 84 rawcons, suggesting the weapons were not identical in 16th century English eyes). Another modern term used for particularly ornate-bladed corseques is the ''chauve-souris''.<ref>Oakeshott (1980), p.51.</ref>

=====Halberd=====
{{Main|Halberd}}

A ''halberd'' (or ''Swiss voulge'') is a two-handed polearm that came to prominent use during the 14th and 15th centuries but has continued in use as a ceremonial weapon to the present day.<ref>Oakeshott (1980), pp. 47–48</ref> First recorded as "hellembart" in 1279, the word ''halberd'' possibly comes from the German words ''Halm'' (staff) or ''Helm'' (helmet), and ''Barte'' (axe). The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants. Early forms are very similar in many ways to certain forms of [[voulge]], while 16th century and later forms are similar to the [[pollaxe (Polearm)|pollaxe]]. The Swiss were famous users of the halberd in the medieval and renaissance eras,<ref>Douglas Miller : The Swiss at War 1300-1500, Osprey MAA 94, 1979</ref> with various [[canton (administrative division)|cantons]] evolving regional variations of the basic form.<ref>Oakeshott (1980), p.47, fig 6</ref>

=====Poleaxe=====
{{See also|Bec de corbin|Lucerne hammer}}

In the 14th century, the basic long axe gained an armour-piercing spike on the back and another on the end of the haft for thrusting. This is similar to the [[Pollaxe (Polearm)|pollaxe]] of 15th century. The poleaxe emerged in response to the need for a weapon that could penetrate [[plate armour]] and featured various combinations of an axe-blade, a back-spike and a hammer. It was the favoured weapon for men-at-arms fighting on foot into the sixteenth century.<ref>Miles & Paddock, pp. 127–128</ref>