Editing Dusack (section)

{{Infobox weapon
|name= Dusack, Tessak, Dussägge
| image= Tessak_type_F_NF.2010-0624.jpg
| image_size = 300
|caption= Tessak – [[Norway]], 16th century
|origin= [[The Holy Roman Empire|German Lands]]
|type= Sabre
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|is_bladed=yes
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|production_date= 1560s
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|variants= Hilt Typology A - H
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|part_length= {{convert|25-38|in|abbr=on}}
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|blade_type= curved (occasionally straight)
|hilt_type= thumb ring, half basket, "Sinclair hilt"
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[[File:Meyer 1570 155.jpg|thumb|300px|Figure illustrating the basic cuts with the ''Dusäck'' in [[Joachim Meyer]]'s fencing manual; a pair of fencers using the ''Dusäck'' is shown in the background (illustration by [[Tobias Stimmer]], 1570).]]
A '''dusack''' or '''dussack''' (also ''dusägge'' and variants,<ref>in [[Early Modern High German]] variously spelled ''dusack, dusäck, dussack, dysack, tesak, tuseckn, thuseckn, disackn, dusägge, dusegge, dusegg''</ref> from Czech ''tesák'' "[[cleaver]]; [[hunting sword]]", lit. "fang") is a  single-edged sword of the [[cutlass]] or [[sabre]]  type, in use as a [[Sidearm (weapon)|side arm]] in [[early modern Germany|Germany]] and the [[Habsburg monarchy]] during the 16th to 17th centuries,<ref>Charles John Ffoulkes, ''The Armourer and His Craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century'', Courier Corporation, 1912, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F-CHHCk2ybsC&pg=PA159  p. 159].</ref> as well as a [[waster|practice weapon]] based on this weapon used in early modern [[German school of fencing|German fencing]].<ref name=Amberger/>