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Cataphract

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

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Armor 76% connected

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

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Corselet 76% connected

Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and ba…

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Corslet 76% connected

A corselet.

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Cuirass 76% connected

A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle

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Mail 76% connected

A spot.

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Aegis 70% connected

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

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Armet 70% connected

A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

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Basinet 70% connected

Same as Bascinet.

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Breastplate 70% connected

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.

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Cannon 70% connected

of Cannon

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Casque 70% connected

A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

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Fauld 70% connected

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

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Gantlet 70% connected

A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.

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Gauntlet 70% connected

See Gantlet.

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Gorget 70% connected

A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate…

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Greave 70% connected

A grove.

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Gusset 70% connected

A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.

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Helmet 70% connected

A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.

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Palette 70% connected

A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.

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Rerebrace 70% connected

Armor for the upper part of the arm.

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Roundel 70% connected

A rondelay.

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Solleret 70% connected

A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.

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Tasse 70% connected

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

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Tasset 70% connected

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

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Vambrace 70% connected

The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

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Voider 70% connected

One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.

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