Morning star (weapon)

A morning star (middle) shown among other club designs
Morning star (left), next to a ball-and-chain flail (right).

A morning star (German: Morgenstern) is any of several medieval club-like weapons consisting of a shaft with an attached ball adorned with one or more spikes, each used, to varying degrees, with a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound the enemy.