glaive

The lance, or glaive as it is often called, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was quite straight and smooth; a vamplate was added in the fourteenth, small at first but larger later, for the protection of the right arm.

The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. … In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives.

[T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.