Ballock Knife
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The ballock knife, also referred to as a kidney dagger, was widely used in the later Middle Ages, in both civilian and military contexts. In Talhoffer's Fechtbuch it is shown in use by armored combatants to deliver a coup de grâce, and in the section devoted to unarmored knife fighting.
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