Morning Star (weapon)
A morning star is any of several medieval club-like weapons that included one or more spikes. Each used, to varying degrees, a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound the enemy.
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‘I will send them to her and die’;
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.”
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