Couter

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Large couter(The left couter on this armour has large wings to protect the inside of the arm.)
Smaller couter(The right couter here is smaller.) Additional information on historic armor]

A couter of an Austrian imperial armour, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The couter (also spelled "cowter") is the defense for the elbow in a piece of plate armour. Initially just a curved piece of metal, as plate armor progressed the couter became an articulated joint.

In fighting reenactment groups such as the Society for Creative Anachronism, a couter/cowter is often called an elbow cop.

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Components of medieval armour

Head	Armet Barbute Bascinet Burgonet Cervelliere Enclosed helmet Close helmet Great helm Frog mouth Hounskull Lobster tail pot Mail coif Morion Nasal helmet Sallet Spangenhelm Kettle hat

Face	Visor Falling buffe

Neck	Aventail Bevor Gorget Pixane

Torso	Breastplate Brigandine Cuirass Culet Pauncer Plackart Fauld Hauberk Codpiece Lance rest Coat of plates Jack of plate

Arms	Ailette Besagew Couter Gauntlet Pauldron Rerebrace Spaulder Vambrace

Legs	Bases Chausses Cuisses Greave Poleyn Sabaton Schynbald Tasset

Pieces	Gousset Lame Rondel

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