quillon

noun /ˈkwɪlən/

1. Either of the two arms of a crossguard.

   Holonyms: crossguard, guard < hilt

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from French quillon (literally “little ninepin”), from quille (“club; ninepin, skittle”) (from the similar appearance) + -on (diminutive suffix). Quille is derived from Middle High German kegel (“club”), from Old High German kegil, from Proto-West Germanic *kagil (“pile, pole, stake; peg, pin”), from *kagō (“bush, shrub”) + *-il (diminutive suffix).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry quillon (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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