Hand or Fist Weapons and Fans
Single-handed weapons not resembling a straight dagger blade, usually wielded without wrist action; often protects the forearm.
- Bagh nakh, tiger claws (Indian subcontinent)
- Brass Knuckles, knuckle dusters (Europe)
- Cestus, bladed cestus, caestus, myrmex, sphairai (Mediterranean)
- Deer horn knives (China)
- Finger knife (Africa)
- Gauntlets (Europe)
- Indian parrying weapon (India)
- Katar, Suwaiya (कटार) (South Asia)
- Korean fan, Mubuchae (무부채), tempered birch fan (Korea)
- Madu, buckhorn parrying stick, Maru (South Asia)
- Nyepel, Larim fighting bracelet (Africa)
- Pata, sword gauntlet (South Asia)
- Push dagger, also see Katar (dagger) (India)
- Roman scissor (Mediterranean; not well attested. May have been a semicircular blade affixed to the end of a metal cylinder encasing the forearm.)
- Tekagi-shuko, Neko-te (Japan)
- Tekko (Japan)
- Tessen, iron fan (Japan)
- Wind and fire wheels (China)
- Emei daggers (China)
Read more about this topic: List Of Premodern Combat Weapons, Melee Weapons
Famous quotes containing the words hand, fist, weapons and/or fans:
“Another hand thy sword shall wield,
Another hand the standard wave,
Till from the trumpet’s mouth is pealed
The blast of triumph o’er thy grave.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“My beautiful, my own
My only Venice—this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)