Celurit
Encyclopedia
Celurit is a sickle
with a pronounced crescent
-blade patterns and a long handle, used in pencak silat
. When compared to the arit
, the celurit is slightly larger. The celurit is an arm typical to the Madurese and frequently used by them as well as by the leaders who called themselves Sakera.
Sickle
A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock . Sickles have also been used as weapons, either in their original form or in various derivations.The diversity of sickles that...
with a pronounced crescent
Crescent
In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points .In astronomy, a crescent...
-blade patterns and a long handle, used in pencak silat
Pencak Silat
Pencak silat is an umbrella term for the indigenous martial arts created in Indonesia. The leading organization of pencak silat in Indonesia is IPSI...
. When compared to the arit
Arit
Arit is a sickle with pronounced crescent-blade patterns and a short handle, but is used typically for farming, not as a fighting weapon....
, the celurit is slightly larger. The celurit is an arm typical to the Madurese and frequently used by them as well as by the leaders who called themselves Sakera.