External ornaments: the shield had six flags and two banners characteristic of Field Marshals and other ornaments (guns, spears, halberd, sword, drums, etc.) of the profession of arms.
Meta Knight's battleship, the Halberd, would reappear in Kirby: Squeak Squad, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Kirby's Epic Yarn.
When the Spanish adopted the colunella (the first of the mixed pike and shot formations), they used small groups of sword and buckler men to break the deadlock of the push of pike, as the Swiss and Germans used halberdiers, comparable to the role of the German Doppelsöldner during the same period.
Viola hastata, the halberd-leaf yellow violet, a flowering plant species in the genus Viola
The first Icelandic-English Dictionary by Richard Cleasby and Guðbrandur Vigfússon, translates kesja as "a kind of halberd" and states that "kesja, atgeir and höggspjót appear to be the same thing".