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Worn as part of a cuirass
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backplate
Alternative clues for the word backplate
Word definitions for backplate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backpiece \Back"piece`\, Backplate \Back"plate`\, n. [Back, n. or a. + piece, plate. ] A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back. Specifically: A piece of plate armor protecting the back; -- it is worn as part of a cuirass. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A plate protecting a fighting person's back. 2 A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
Usage examples of backplate.
I would have run, but my backplate clanked behind me like a ceramic cape and caught my heels.
My limbs were still in their jointed ceramic cylinders, and the damned backplate dragged at me like an anchor.
The backplate was solid, with hinges on the sides and the breastplate split along an overlapping seam in the middle.
His boots slipped midway in fluids spewed from the corpse, and he bounced down the remainder of the steps on his buttocks, backplate, and helmet.
As the man plunged off his horse, something crashed against the backplate of her cuirass and hurled her, too, down amid the stamping hoofs.
Many have informed me that I should have severed his knee tendons when I was behind him, just as many have chided me that I did not thrust below the edge of the backplate and skewer his kidney.
Felso Theu took the backplate of the control cabinet off, and the Terresians looked at the control with interest.
Ali held the backplate in place while Nugai strapped it on over the hauberk, then they reversed roles, with Nugai holding up the breastplate while Sir Ali inserted the hingepins on one side and did up the buckles on the other.
Then, suddenly, he was in the midst of a living noise so loud that he nearly swooned of its effects and just lay there, feeling drugged or very drunk, hearing nothing, until something began to beat upon the backplate of his cuirass insistently.
Many have informed me that I should have severed his knee tendons when I was behind him, just as many have raided me that I did not thrust below the edge of the backplate and skewer his kidney.
The shoulder straps were riveted to the backplate and fitted onto hooks with pin closures on the front.
Already he could see that the man was well armored, in a backplate of painted steel.
A dagger point raked along his ribs between breastplate and backplate, a sword-edge flashed before his eyes.
Outraged, Riverwind whirled and grabbed the offender by his polished backplate and hauled him off his feet.
The Cuirassiers wore steel breastplates, helmets and backplates, and rode the heaviest horses of all the French cavalry.