bull-hide

Updated: June 5, 2025

"Ill fared it then with Roderick Dhu, That on the field his targe he threw, Whose brazen studs and tough bull-hide Had death so often dashed aside; For, trained abroad his arms to wield, Fitz-James's blade was sword and shield."

Baron Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn Headley - Broad-Sword and Single-Stick: With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah,: Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence