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A Welsh hook is a type of polearm, a halberd-like weapon with a hook on the back, and gained its name due to its prevalence among the Welsh soldiers during the medieval wars against the English.cite-ref-footnotelublin2013115-1-0[1] It closely related to the agricultural implement known as a bill and is commonly classified as a type of poleaxe.cite-ref-footnoteshakespearerowe1821286-287-2-0[2]

• In literature

• Notes

• References

• "That no man presume to wear any weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills" ("The History of Sir John Oldcastle", Folio 3, 1664, 60).cite-ref-footnoteshakespearerowe1821286-3-0[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?" (Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1, 290).cite-ref-footnoteshakespearerowe1821286-3-1[3]

cite-note-footnotelublin2013115-11. ↑ Lublin 2013, p. 115.

cite-note-footnoteshakespearerowe1821286-287-22. ↑ Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, pp. 286–287.

cite-note-footnoteshakespearerowe1821286-33. ↑ Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, p. 286.

• citereflublin2013Lublin, Dr Robert I (2013), Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture, Ashgate Publishing, p. 115, ISBN 9781409479048

• citerefshakespearerowe1821Shakespeare, 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