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A Ricasso is an unsharpened length of blade just above the guard or handle on a knife dagger sword or bayonet. Blades designed this way appear at many periods in history in many parts of the world and date back to at least the Bronze Age; essentially as long as humans have shaped cutting tools from metals.There were many reasons to make a blade with a ricasso and in Europe later longswords claymores rapiers and other lengthy swords often had this feature.
