Morning Star (weapon)
A morning star is any of several medieval club-like weapons that included one or more spikes. Each used, to varying degrees, a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound the enemy.
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“Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)