Editing Trident (section)

==Use==
[[File:Trident fishing gallaeus.jpg|thumb|Dutch fishermen using tridents in the 17th century.]]

===Fishing===
In Ancient Greece, the trident was employed as a [[harpoon]] for spearing large fish, especially [[tuna]] fishing.<ref name=burkert/>

Tridents used in modern [[spear-fishing]] usually have barbed [[Tine (structural)|tines]], which trap the speared fish firmly. In the [[Southern United States|Southern]] and [[Midwestern United States]], ''[[gigging]]'' is used for harvesting [[Catostomidae|suckers]], [[American bullfrog|bullfrogs]], [[flounder]] and many species of [[rough fish]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Turner |first1=Andy |title=Fish Gigging: An Ozark Tradition |url=http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2014/09/fish-gigging-ozark-tradition |publisher=Missouri Department of Conservation |access-date=2015-02-12 |archive-date=2019-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811234836/https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2014/09/fish-gigging-ozark-tradition |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Agriculture ===
It has been used by farmers as a [[decorticator]] to remove leaves, seeds and buds from the stalks of plants such as [[flax]] and [[hemp]].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} A form of trident is used by the [[gardian]]s in the Camargue of southern France for herding cattle.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===Combat===
In [[Ancient Rome]] tridents ({{langx|la|{{linktext|tridens}}}} or {{lang|la|{{linktext|fuscina}}|italics=yes}}) were used by a type of [[gladiator]] called a ''[[retiarius]]'' or "net fighter". The ''retiarius'' was traditionally pitted against a ''[[secutor]]'', and [[Cast net|cast a net]] to wrap his adversary and then used the trident to fight him.<ref>{{Cite DGRA|title=Gladiatores|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7h1XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA918}}</ref><ref>Auguet, Roland [1970] (2012). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A-3BfuPqIeUC&56 Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games]''. London: Routledge. pp. 56–57, 72–74. {{ISBN|0-415-10452-1}}.</ref>

Tridents were also used in medieval [[heraldry]].

The trident, known as [[dangpa]], is used as a weapon in the 17th- to 18th-century systems of [[Korean martial arts]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}