Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adz adze | a cutting tool with an arched blade which is set at right angles to the handle. |
| assagai assegaai assegai | a slender spear of hard wood tipped with iron; (verb) to kill or stab with this. |
| atlatl | a Native American throwing-stick; an ancient Mexican spear-thrower. |
| ax axe | a tool or weapon for cutting or chopping, having its edge and handle in the same plane; (verb) to strike with an axe. |
| battleax battleaxe | a kind of axe once used in battle; a domineering, usually older woman. |
| bident | a two-pronged spear. |
| bident | a two-pronged spear. |
| bill | a concave battle-axe with a long wooden handle. |
| broadax broadaxe | a kind of battle-axe. |
| celt | a prehistoric stone axehead. |
| chopper | something that chops; (verb) to transfer by helicopter. |
| cleaver | a butcher's chopper. |
| feutre fewter | a spear-rest; (verb) to set a spear in a rest. |
| fishgig fisgig fizgig | a kind of HARPOON. |
| gavelock | a javelin; a crow-bar. [OE gafeluc]. |
| gisarme | a long-shafted halberd with two-edged axe carried by a medieval foot soldier. |
| gurlet | a PICKAXE with one pointed and one bladed end. |
| halberd halbert | a PIKE with an axe-head. |
| harpoon | a barbed dart or spear, esp. for killing whales; (verb) to spear with a harpoon. |
| hatchet | a small axe for use in one hand. |
| hatchety | like a HATCHET. |
| javelin | a light spear for throwing, either as a weapon or in sport; (verb) to spear with a javelin. |
| jereed jerid jerreed jerrid | a wooden Oriental javelin. |
| lance | a cavalry weapon with a long shaft and a spearhead; (verb) to pierce with a lance. |
| lancelike | like a lance. |
| lancegay launcegaye | a kind of spear. |
| lister leister | a three-pronged spear or trident used for fishing; LEISTER but not LISTER can be used as a verb: to spear with a leister. [ON ljostr]. |
| mattock | a kind of PICKAXE for loosening soil, with a cutting end instead of a point. |
| morne | the blunt head of a jousting LANCE. |
| palstaff palstave | a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age. |
| partizan | a kind of PIKE. |
| pickax pickaxe | a tool with a blade and a pointed end, used for digging; (verb) to dig with a pickaxe. |
| pike | a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head like a spear, formerly used by foot soldiers; (verb) to pierce with a pike. |
| pikestaff | the staff, or shaft, of a pike. Pl. PIKESTAFFS or PIKESTAVES. |
| pile pilum | a Roman javelin. The pl. of PILUM is PILA. |
| piolet | a mountain-climbing ice axe. |
| poleax poleaxe | a battle-axe consisting of an axe-head on a long handle; (verb) to strike with a POLEAXE. |
| sax zax zex | a CHOPPER for trimming slate. |
| sparke | (Spenser) a weapon of some kind, possibly an error for SPARTHE. |
| sparth sparthe sperthe | a long battleaxe. [ON spartha]. |
| spear | a long weapon made of a pole with a pointed head; (verb) to pierce with a spear. |
| spearhead | the pointed head, or end, of a spear. |
| sperthe | see SPARTH. |
| spontoon | a kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers. |
| tomahawk | a war-axe; (verb) to strike with a tomahawk. |
| tomboc | a Javanese long-handled weapon. |
| trident | a three-pronged spear. |
| twibil twibill | a double-headed axe. |
| vouge voulge | a weapon carried by foot-soldiers in the 14th century, consisting of a blade on a staff. |
| womera wommera woomera woomerang | a stick for launching a spear with greater force. |