WordNet
n. (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings [syn: chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, ring armor, ring armour]
Usage examples of "chain armour".
Horses of the Friesian breed, larger and heavier than the native ponies, which had been auctioned off nearly a generation earlier when the cavalry left the wall, mated to the also dark-coated Fell Ponies of the north, producing a wiry and strong mount, able to carry a man wearing chain armour.
His back and shoulders were sodden, covered in warm blood, his chain armour shredded by the enkar'al's talons.
His chain armour was in shreds, but beneath he could see the red flame of newly healed flesh.
She was dressed again in her shining chain armour, with her helmet on her golden hair, a slender sword in her gauntleted hand.
In a pit on the far side of the old woman was a pile of rusting armour, with helmets, breastplates, horse harnesses, chain armour, shields.
It showed a giant figure in full medieval chain armour with the jagged, winged helmet of ancient Japanese warriors.
He was referring to his camail, a headpiece of chain armour that hung down from his fool's bonnet to his shoulders, over his ears.
For a moment the black-bearded Nasta stood with bowed face leaning on his long sword as though in despair, and then, with a dreadful shout, he too rushed up at the Zulu, and, swinging the glittering sword around his head, dealt him such a mighty blow beneath his guard, that the keen steel of the heavy blade bit right through the chain armour and deep into Umslopogaas' side, for a moment paralysing him and causing him to drop his axe.
The blow cut through Twala's shield and through the tough chain armour behind it, gashing him in the shoulder.
Advancing to the door of the hut we ordered that they should be admitted, and presently three men entered, each bearing a shining shirt of chain armour, and a magnificent battle-axe.