List of types of spears
This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history.
Used equally in melee and thrown
Normally melee
- Bayonet (when fixed to rifle)
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
- Tepoztopilli (Aztec)
- Makrigga (Zande)
- Iklwa (Zulu)
Normally thrown
- Harpoon
- One flue harpoon
- Two flue harpoon
Europe
Elsewhere
- Assegai (Africa)
- Djerid (Asia Minor, India and Africa)
- Toggling harpoon (Americas)
- Iklwa Zulu stabbing spear
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