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Estoc
The French estoc or English "tuck" was a type of European sword in use from the 14th to 17th centuries. Characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight, edgeless but sharply pointed blade of around to long.
==Description==
The estoc was a variation of the longsword designed for fighting against mail or plate armour. It was long, straight and stiff with no cutting edge, just a point. Examples from Poland are more than long, with a blade of ; however, others showed a more manageable , with a blade. Such swords averaged about 4 pounds (2 kg) with no specimen weighing more than 6 pounds. The size seems to have been made-to-order.
Blade cross-sections can be triangular, square, rhomboid or flat hexagonal.〔 This geometry left hardly any cutting capability as a sharpened edge could simply not be ground, but allowed the weapon to become lengthy, stiff, and very acutely pointed.
Early on, the estoc was hung from the saddle when on horseback and simply hung from the belt when the soldier took to the ground. As the weapon developed, however, infantrymen using it began to wear it in a scabbard. Most varieties of estoc provided a long grip like that of a greatsword, though others mimicked the ''zweihänder'' in providing a long ricasso with a secondary guard of ''parrierhaken''. As on the two-hander, this extended grip gave the wielder the advantage of extra leverage with which to more accurately and powerfully thrust the long weapon. Some other forms provided finger rings, curved quillons, or other forms of a compound hilt.〔 Few, however, developed anything close to a full basket hilt.
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