Medieval Polearms

Podao or pudao (Chinese: 朴刀; pinyin: pōdāo) is a Chinese single-edged infantry weapon that is still used primarily for training in various Chinese martial arts.

The goedendag was essentially a combination of a club with a spear.

Polearm

polearm or impact weapon

A halberd (also called halbard or halbert) is a two-handed polearm that was in prominent use in Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries.

The poleaxe (also poleax, pollaxe and other similar spellings) is a European polearm that was used by medieval infantry.

A bardiche , berdiche, bardische, bardeche, or berdish is a type of polearm used from the 14th to 17th centuries in Europe.

A guandao is a type of Chinese polearm that is used in some forms of Chinese martial arts.

A voulge (; also spelled vouge or wouge) is a type of polearm that existed in medieval Europe, primarily in 15th-century France.

A ranseur, also called Brandistocco or Runka, was a polearm similar to the partisan used in Europe up to the 15th century.

A war scythe or military scythe is a form of polearm with a curving single-edged blade with the cutting edge on the concave side of the blade.

A guisarme (sometimes gisarme, giserne or bisarme) is a polearm used in Europe primarily between 1000 and 1400.

An atgeir was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland.

A fauchard is a type of polearm which was used in Europe from the 11th through the 17th centuries.

A sovnya (Russian: совня) is a category of traditional polearms used in Russia.

A pike is a long thrusting spear formerly used in European warfare from the Late Middle Ages and most of the early modern period, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in pike square formation, until it was largely replaced by bayonet-equipped muskets.

A glaive, sometimes spelled as glave, is a type of pole weapon, with a single-edged blade on the end, known for its distinctive design and versatile combat applications.

Yari (槍) is the term for a traditionally-made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō) in the form of a spear, or more specifically, the straight-headed spear.

A bear spear was a medieval type of spear used in hunting for bears and other large animals, such as boars (in which case it might be called a boar spear).

Djerid (also jarid, jered) is a type of throwing spear ~1 m (3 ft 3 in) in length, usually with a wooden haft and small steel head, but sometimes it's entirely made of steel and used for hunting and warfare.