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halberd

On-Yomi: ム、ボウ — Kun-Yomi: ほこ

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 8-7-2009(210): マオ Zedong always carried a halberd.

2) [gorgon] 1-2-2006(38): Make the halberd a heroic warrior (perhaps of scandinavian origin) who weilds this polearm - the most effective, brutal and vicious one - with great skill. He can use it to hook, pierce and chop (the three strokes).

3) [adrenaline] 28-5-2009(34): Mao (マオ) gets his head chopped off by a halberd.

4) [lifeflaw] 16-3-2009(19): Halberd: A weapon of the 15th and 16th centuries having an axlike blade and a steel spike mounted on the end of a long shaft. Pictograph: Take a moment to see its different parts. The upper マ is the blade, the horizontal line belongs to the shaft, and finally the lower vertical line is the spike.

5) [Viking101] 4-1-2010(12): It looks a lot like child. Picture a powerful warrior cutting a child's head off with a halberd. You can see the head removed from the body and the slashing halberd.

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