Editing Estoc (section)

==Description==
The estoc was a variation of the [[longsword]] designed for fighting against [[chain mail|mail armor]] or [[plate armor]].<ref name=armsandarmour2>{{cite book |first=Leonid |last=Tarassuk |author2=Blair, Claude |title=The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons: The Most Comprehensive Reference Work Ever Published on Arms and Armor from Prehistoric Times to the Present - with Over 1,200 Illustrations |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=1982 |page=491}}</ref> It was long, straight and stiff with no cutting edge, just a point. Examples from Poland are more than {{convert|62|in|cm|order=flip|abbr=on}} long, with a blade of {{convert|52|in|cm|round=5|order=flip|abbr=on}}; however, others show a more manageable {{convert|46|in|cm|round=5|order=flip|abbr=on}}, with a {{convert|36|in|cm|round=5|order=flip|abbr=on}} blade.{{fact|date=December 2019}} Such swords average about {{convert|4|lb|kg|spell=in|round=0.5}} with no specimen weighing more than {{convert|6|lb|kg|spell=in}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thearma.org/essays/weights.htm |first=J. |last=Clements | title=What Did Historical Swords Weigh? |publisher=ARMA |year=2003|access-date = 2012-03-03}}</ref>

Blade cross-sections can be triangular, square, rhomboid, or flat hexagonal.<ref name=estoc/> This geometry leaves hardly any cutting capability as a sharpened edge could simply not be ground but allowed the weapon to be lengthy, stiff, and very acutely pointed.<ref name="swordforms">{{cite web |first=John |last=Clements |url=http://www.thearma.org/terms4.htm |title=Medieval & Renaissance Sword Forms and Companion Implements |work=Definitions & Study Terminology |publisher= [[Association for Renaissance Martial Arts]]}}</ref>

Early on, the estoc was hung from the saddle when on horseback and simply hung from the belt when a soldier took to the ground. As the weapon developed, however, infantrymen began to wear it in a [[scabbard]].<ref name="glossary">{{cite book |first=George Cameron |last=Stone | author-link = George Cameron Stone | title=A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armour |publisher=Jack Brussel |year=1961 |page=223}}</ref> Most varieties of estoc provide a long [[Hilt#Grip|grip]] like that of a [[greatsword]], though others mimic the ''[[zweihänder]]'' in providing a long [[ricasso]] with a secondary guard of ''parierhaken''.{{efn-ua| small, pointed lugs or flanges protruding from their blades 4-8 inches below their guard. These ''parrierhaken'' or 'parrying hooks' act almost as a secondary guard for the ricasso to catch and bind other weapons or prevent them from sliding down into the hands.<ref name="Clements">{{cite web |last1=Clements |first1=J. |title=The Weighty Issue of Two-Handed Greatswords |url= http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html |website=ARMA - the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts |access-date=23 January 2018 |date=October 2004 |publisher= [[Association for Renaissance Martial Arts]] |quote=Many of these weapons ''[two-handed greatswords]'' have compound-hilts with side-rings and enlarged cross-guards of up to 12 inches. Most have small, pointed lugs or flanges protruding from their blades 4-8 inches below their guard. These ''parrierhaken'' or “parrying hooks” act almost as a secondary guard for the ricasso to catch and bind other weapons or prevent them from sliding down into the hands.}}</ref>}} 
As on the zweihänder, this extended grip gives the wielder the advantage of extra leverage with which more accurately and powerfully to thrust the long weapon. Some other forms provided finger rings, curved [[Hilt#Guard|quillons]], or other varieties of compound hilts.<ref name="armsandarmour2" />