Historical Artifacts

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'Swordbreaker' for catching and binding enemy weapons, Qing China, 19th century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It seems to be the combination of catching and destroying.

[–] illi@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh. So this is literally swordbreaker. Lovely.

My frame reference for a "swordbreaker" is a parrying dagger, not for actual blade breaking.