AWelsh hook is a type ofpolearm, ahalberd-like weapon with a hook on the back, and gained its name due to its prevalence among theWelsh soldiers during themedieval wars against theEnglish.^[1] It closely related to the agricultural implement known as abill and is commonly classified as a type ofpoleaxe.^[2]

• "That no man presume to wear any weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills" ("The History of Sir John Oldcastle", Folio 3, 1664, 60).^[3]
• Falstaff: "My own knee? ... and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook,—What, a plague, call you him?" (ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1, 290).^[3]

• Lublin, Dr Robert I (2013),Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture, Ashgate Publishing, p. 115,ISBN 9781409479048
• Shakespeare, William; Rowe, Nicholas; et al. (1821),The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I, F. C. and J. Rivington, pp. 286–287

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