polearm

Noun.  A close quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.