Hunting Spears from the 15th or 16th Century

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“A weapon consisting of a penetrating head attached to a long shaft of wood, designed to be thrust by or launched from the hand at an enemy or at game.” —Whitney, 1889

Illustration of two different hunting spears. The spear on the left has a long handle and a simple arrowhead. The spear on the right has a shorter handle and a crosspiece at the base of the blade with a curved blade attached.

Keywords

hunter, spear, blade, hunt, arrow, hunting, sharp, arrowhead, javelin, thrust, Spire, pointed blade, thrusting

Galleries

Spears and Other Polearms, Miscellaneous Medieval Illustrations, Hunting

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5804

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