obuch

300px|thumb|right|The head of an obuch (with a rolled up beak) The obuch, obuszek or obuszysko is a type of melee weapon, very similar to a horseman's pick () but differing from it with a curved beak opposite the hammer. In Poland, it was customary to distinguish this type of weapon by the type of tip: if it has a sharp, perpendicular beak, it is a horseman's pick; if the beak is curled downward, it is an obuch; if it has an axe head, it is a . Most often there was a hammer on the opposite side of the blade.

Used from the 16th to the 18th century by the Szlachta (Polish nobility), it often had a shaft length of and was carried like a staff and was often bound in velvet and gold twine.