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Furnishings and Equipment (Hierarchy Name) > Weapons and Ammunition > weapons > edged weapons > staff weapons > leading staffs
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Leading staffs with heads imitating those of various other staff weapons, but most commonly having a broad, pointed blade with a rounded base, often with two pointed lugs like a partisan or a crossbar like a boar spear. They were used in Great Britain and Continental Europe from the 18th into the mid-19th century by infantry subordinate officers, particularly English sergeants.
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- spontons [nl]
- espontones [es]
- spontoon [en]
- espontoons [en]
- half-pikes [en]
- spontons [en]
- sponton [nl]
- espontón [es]