List of types of spears
This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history.
Used equally in melee and thrown
- Migration Period spear
Normally melee
- Bayonet (when fixed to a Long gun)
Asia
- Arbir
- Bambu Runcing
- Dangpa
- Gichang
- Hoko yari
- Ji
- Kama-yari
- Qiang
- Sibat
- Trishula
- Yari
- Naginata
- Assegai
Europe
- Ahlspiess
- Boar spear
- Bohemian earspoon
- Brandistock
- Dory
- Fauchard
- Goedendag
- Halberd
- Half pike
- Hasta
- Military fork
- Ox tongue spear
- Partisan
- Pike
- Plançon a picot
- Ranseur
- Sarissa
- Spetum
- Spontoon
- Trident
- Glaive
Elsewhere
- Hoeroa (Māori, New Zealand)
- Iklwa (Zulu)
- Makrigga (Zande)
- Tepoztopilli (Aztec)
Normally used from horseback
Normally thrown
Europe
Elsewhere
- Assegai (Africa)
- Djerid (Asia Minor, India and Africa)
- Toggling harpoon (Americas)
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) |
