There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

In battle, he wore a linen cuirass (), was brave and intrepid, especially skilled in throwing the spear and, next to Achilles, the swiftest of all the Greeks.

Quintus Smyrnaeus lists the attendant warriors of Penthesilea: " Clonie was there, Polemusa, Derinoe, Evandre, and Antandre, and Bremusa, Hippothoe, dark-eyed Harmothoe, Alcibie, Derimacheia, Antibrote, and Thermodosa glorying with the spear.

* Alce, who was said to have killed the young Oebalus of Arcadia, son of Ida ( otherwise unknown ), with her spear during the Parthian War.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

Aelian was discussing the use of the counter march in the context of the Roman sword gladius and spear pilum.

Abd al-Rahman had no banner, and so one was improvised by unwinding a green turban and binding it round the head of a spear.

Also known as the toggle-head spear, it was about the same size as the simple harpoon and used to hunt the same animals, however, this harpoon provided a more efficient and lethal weapon.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

Circe eventually informed him who his absent father was and, when he set out to find Odysseus, gave him a poisoned spear.

Large as it is now, in earlier times it was even larger, as the constellation Lupus was treated as an asterism within Centaurus, portrayed in illustrations as an unspecified animal either in the centaur's grasp or impaled on its spear.

However, a good sword blow arriving in exactly perpendicular angle to the surface could cut through the links ; when the mail was not riveted, a well placed thrust from a spear or thin sword could penetrate, and a pollaxe or halberd blow could break through the armour.

To many Germans, the expression " stab in the back " was evocative of Richard Wagner's 1876 opera Götterdämmerung, in which Hagen murders his enemy Siegfried with a spear in his back.

If the " doratismos " ( Greek for spear combat ) was not decisive, then the lines would close and swords would be drawn.

The primary weapon was a spear called a dory.

The spearhead was usually a curved leaf shape, while the rear of the spear had a spike called a sauroter (' lizard-killer ') which was used to stand the spear in the ground ( hence the name ).

The primary weapon was a thin 6-foot throwing spear, the assegai.

The throwing spear was not discarded, but standardised like the stabbing implement and carried as a missile weapon, typically discharged at the foe, before close contact.

Fourteen years later, Libanius said that Julian was killed by a Saracen ( Lakhmid ) and this may have been confirmed by Julian's doctor Oribasius who, having examined the wound, said that it was from a spear used by a group of Lakhmid auxiliaries in Persian service.

Lugh obtained the Spear of Assal ( Ir: Gae Assail ) as an éric imposed on the children of Tuirill Piccreo ( or Biccreo ), according to the short account in Lebor Gabála Érenn ( Poem LXV, ¶ 319 ) which adds that the incantation " Ibar ( Yew )" made the cast always hit its mark, and " Athibar ( Re-Yew )" caused the spear to return.

It is dated Sunday, 18 February, 658 AD ( and thus belongs to the post-Funanese period ) and states in relevant part ( stanzas XVI-XVIII ): " It was there the city of Bhavapura that Kauṇḍinya, the foremost among brahmins, planted the spear which he had obtained from Droṇa's Son Aśvatthāman, the best of brahmins.

* 8, 500 BCE Late Paleo Peoples inhabited the now boreal pine forests of Southwestern Ontario hunting caribou, arctic fox and rabbit or hare with darts and spear throwers made from materials obtained through trade or travel with others at great distances.

They made use of obsidian obtained from the volcanic ranges to the east to fashion sharp and effective projectile points, including arrowheads and spear tips.

For instance, the spear, a tool obtained in the first level of the game, may be thrown across gaps to other humans, used to jump chasms, thrown to kill dinosaurs or other enemies, or brandished hold off dinosaurs temporarily.

Pulling off her face mask, she carefully placed the spear gun across the stern, then lifted her wet hair from her back and squeezed out the water.

Ajax, wielding an enormous spear as a weapon and leaping from ship to ship, holds off the Trojan armies virtually single-handedly.

Hector refrains from battle until Agamemnon leaves the field, wounded in the arm by a spear.

Numerous finds have been made of spear heads and weaponry from the Bronze and Iron ages near the banks of the Thames in the London area, many of which had clearly been used in battle.

As weapons the Zulu warrior carried the iklwa stabbing spear ( losing one could result in execution ) and a club or cudgel fashioned from dense hardwood known in Zulu as the iwisa, usually called the knobkerrie in English, for beating an enemy in the manner of a mace.

Whether facing native spear or European bullet, impis largely fought as they had since the days of Shaka, from Zululand to Zimbabwe, and from Mozambique to Tanzania.

He received a wound from a spear that reportedly pierced the lower lobe of his liver, the peritoneum and intestines.

Lugh's spear ( sleg ), according to the text of The Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was an insuperable spear, taken to Ireland from Gorias ( or Findias ).

In a full narrative version called oidhe Chloinne Tuireann ( The Fate of the Children of Tuireann ), from copies no earlier than the 18th century, Lugh demands the spear named Ar-éadbair or Areadbhair ( Early Mod.

A pole-arm is different from a spear in that the ' edge ' is perpendicular to the pole, rather than parallel.

While hooks are fine for dismounting horsemen from mounts, they lack the stopping power of a spear especially when dealing with static opponents.

The name ' spear ' mint derives from the pointed leaf tips.

* They were given a spear with which they stirred the water, and when removed water dripped from the end, an island was created in the great nothingness.

David prevents his associates from killing Saul, because doing so would prove the former no more worthy than the latter ; Instead, David merely steals Saul's spear and water jug.

Hunting spear and knife, from Mesa Verde National Park

Neanderthals were constructing stone spear heads from as early as 300, 000 BP and by 250, 000 years ago, wooden spears were made with fire-hardened points.

The name vellalar is derived from vel + aalar, which means " ruler of the spear ".

In an encampment at Stabulum Diomedis, near Philippi, he falls from an unruly horse onto a spear and dies.

The executioner finished him off with spear thrusts from below the ribcage, then the body was left to hang for a time as a public display before disposal.

There is fossil evidence for spear use in Asian hunting dating from approximately 16, 200 years ago.