shotel

The shotel could be used to hook and rip the warrior off the horse.

The shotel was carried in a close fitting leather scabbard.

A shotel is a curved sword originating in Abyssinia (ancient Ethiopia).

The curve on the shotel's blade varies from the Persian shamshir, adopting an almost semicircular shape.

The Abyssinian shotel took the form of a large sickle, like the Egyptian khopesh, with a small 4 inch wooden handle.

The Gile has two cutting edges, while the shotel's upper edge is unsharpened and sometimes used braced against the swordsman's shield for strength.

Classically the Shotel was employed in a dismounted state to hook the opponent by reaching around a shield or any other defensive implement or weapon.

Shotel (Horn of Africa, primarily Ethiopia and Eritrea)

The Shotel and other Ethiopian swords are occasionally referred collectively in Geez as Han'e.

However, the mid-18th century European visitor to Ethiopia, Remedius Prutky, often used the word shotel to describe a carving knife.

Evidence for the shotel dates from the earliest Damotians (Damites) and Axumites, used by both mounted and dismounted warriors.

The Shotel swordsmen known as Shotelai and organized in the Axurarat Shotelai comprised one of the elite forces of Amda Seyon's Imperial host.

"The military is very valuable to us," said Dr. Jay Shotel, special assistant to the president at George Washington University, and an education professor who in 1985 helped design a teacher training program especially for military personnel.