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A hurlbat (or whirlbat, whorlbat) is a weapon of unclear original definition. Older reference works refer to it largely as a type of club, either held in the hand or possibly thrown. Modern usage appears to refer to a type of throwing-axe. ==Dictionary references== The term was used as a by-name in England as early as 1327, and the ''hurlebatte'' was mentioned, possibly as a type of club, among the pikestaff and sword and buckler in a 1440 text. *The 16th-century Thomas Elyot dictionary uses the term to translate a Latin word, and describes a throwing action: ''Adides, short battes of a cubyte longe and an halfe, hauynge pikes of yron in theym, and were tyed to a lyne, that whanne they were throwen, he that did cast thẽ, mought plucke them agayn vnto him, hurlebattes.'' *A 1707 English dictionary defines ''whorlbat'' as ''"a kind of Gauntlet with Straps and leaden Plummets, uſed by the ancient Heroes in their ſolemn Games and Exerciſes.'' *An 1837 edition of the Samuel Johnson dictionary defined it as simply "a weapon", *An 1854 John Craig dictionary defined it as "an old kind of weapon". *An 1856 German-English dictionary used ''whirlbat'' as synonymous with "club for fighting". *A 1911 dictionary notes it to be ''a kind of club or cudgel, so called because whirled around the head. It does not appear that such a weapon was thrown.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hurlbat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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