Melee weapon

Melee Weapons  are weapons used in direct hand-to-hand combat. The term comes from the 1640s French word melee which refers to hand-to-hand combat.
==Types of melee weapons==
*Pointed weapons-Includes spears, spikes, almost all polearms
*Edged weapons-Includes swords, knives, axes, and daggers
*Trauma weapons-Covers clubs, maces, warhammers, staves, flails, etc.
==Gallery==
Golf club.png|Golf club
Crowbar.png|Crowbar
Baseball bat.png|Baseball bat
Kuku Hanuman Karambit.jpg|Karambit
Dagger.png|Dagger
Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife.jpg|Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
Dirk.png|Dirk
Throwing knives.png|Throwing knives
Tomahawk.png|Tomahawk
Machete model.png|Machete
Sickle.png|Sickle
Stileto.png|Stiletto
AcII-knife.png|Knife
Iron Tomahawk.png|Tomahawk 
Dirk.png|Dirk