What is "quillion"

Usage examples of "quillion".

In the place of that priceless weapon, his baldric held a hybrid of his own designan old cinquedea two-foot dagger blade rehilted with the quillions, pommel, and pierced-steel hand-guard from a Spanish broadsword captured at the Battle of Bloody Rye.

It looked to be Damascus steel, a wavy, colorful pattern irregularly reflecting back the flames down the length of steel, from quillions to point.

It looked to be damascus steel, a wavy, colorful pattern irregularly reflecting back the flames down the length of steel, from quillions to point.

He pulled Kosall free of its scabbard by the quillions, and only then did he activate its magick by grasping the hilt.

In its present configuration, the century-old blade—some four inches wide just below the quillions, double-edged, and tapering to an acute point—had never been bloodied.

In its present configuration, the century-old bladesome four inches wide just below the quillions, double-edged, and tapering to an acute pointhad never been bloodied.

His broadsword hung by its knot from his wrist, its long blade hacked and nicked and dulled from point to quillions with clotting red-brown stains.

The pommel was a silver-washed iron apple, and the quillions were double, set at right angles to each other.

Relaxing again, he checked the weapon for maker's marks, and sure enough, on the blade near the quillions found the tiny Dell'este symbol.

He tilted the thing in his hands so that it caught the light from Petro's windows, and touched a hesitant finger first to the tiny number etched into the metal just beneath the threads for the nut, then to the maker's mark that was cut into the steel below the quillions, where it would be visible.