(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:04:08

Mar`tel` de fer" (?). [OF., hammer of iron.]

A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor.

Fairholt.

 

© Webster 1913.

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