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Armor that protects the wearer's whole body
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cataphract
Word definitions for cataphract in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coat of mail," Middle English, from Latin cataphractes "breastplate of iron scales," from Greek kataphraktes "coat of mail," from kataphraktos "covered up," from kataphrassein "to fortify," from kata "entirely" (see cata- ) + phrassein "to fence around, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cataphract \Cat"a*phract\ (k[a^]t"[.a]*fr[a^]kt), n. [L. cataphractes, Gr. ?, fr. ? covered, fr. ? to cover; kata` down, wholly + fra`ssein to inclose.] (Mil. Antiq.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cataphract was a form of armored heavy cavalry used in ancient warfare by a number of peoples in Western Eurasia and the Eurasian Steppe . The English word is derived from the Greek (plural: ), literally meaning "armored" or "completely enclosed". Historically, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Defensive armor used for the entire body and often for the horse, also, especially the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. 2 A horseman covered with a cataphract. 3 The armor or plate covering some fishes.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. armor that protects the wearer's whole body [syn: body armor , body armour , suit of armor , suit of armour , coat of mail ]
Usage examples of cataphract.
Valentinian and Anastasius came right behind, followed by droves of cataphracts.
He reminded himself, firmly, that he had chosen Basil to command the katyusha rocket force because the man was one of the few Thracian cataphracts who had a liking and affinity for the new weapons.
The katyushas would be charging at the Malwa from their hiding place in the northeast woods, followed by the Thracian and Illyrian cataphracts.
Fortunately, the bow which had launched that arrow lacked the power of a cataphract bow.
No cataphract in his right mind would even think of driving armored horses through that rabbit warren.
Rhodes, watching the Syrian gunners miss targets at a range that any self-respecting Thracian cataphract could have hit with an arrow blind drunk.
No bows in the world were as powerful as cataphract bows, few arrowheads as sharp, and none as heavy.
The other half, within seconds, were being butchered by cataphract swords and axes.
So, one cataphract aiding another, they quickly gathered up their casualties and draped them across their horses.
Telling the cataphract Basil of the vision he had received, once, of a princess held in captivity by the Malwa.
Do you really want to unleash a volley of cataphract arrows against a crowd?
Every one of those thousand cataphracts who pounded past the Kushan hedgehog, fired at least one arrow into the enemy mass.
Belisarius and his cataphracts were within fifty yards of the Malwa regulars who had been advancing behind the Kushans.
He saw, out of the corner of an eye, one of his cataphracts clutch his face with both hands and fall off his saddle.
He had assumed that the rocket volleys would be over and done with by the time the cataphracts arrived.