Ox-tongue Spear

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The Ox-tongue, or the Langdebeve and Langue de Boeve spear was a polearm weapon common among the Swiss and French from the 15th to the 17th centuries. It had a long double-bladed head and was named for its resemblance to the tongue of an ox. While it was named a spear, it was a polearm weapon and probably only thrown in frustration or when fleeing the battlefield. The ox-tongue design developed into the partisan polearm by the mid 16th century.