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Originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position
Answer for the clue "Originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position ", 6 letters:
pavise
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n. (alternative form of pavis English)
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n. (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position [syn: pavis ]
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A pavise (or pavis , pabys , or pavesen , all of them words stemming from the name of the city of Pavia , in Italy ) is a large convex shield of European origin used to protect the entire body. The pavise was also made in a smaller version for hand-to-hand ...
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Pavise \Pa*vise\, n. [OF. pavaix, F. pavois; cf. It. pavese, LL. pavense; perh. named from Pavia in Italy.] (Mil. Antiq.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais , ...
Usage examples of pavise.
The Count had cross- bowmen of his own and they were protected by pavises, full-length shields carried by a second man to protect the archer while he laboriously wound the cord of the crossbow, but the men throwing the gabions had no protection once their burdens were thrown and eight of them died before the rest realized that the moat really was too deep and that there were not nearly enough gabions.
An arrow had glanced off one of his rerebraces, wounding a man behind, and two of the front rank were staggering with arrows through their mail, but the rest followed Guy Vexille as he closed up the pavise wall and headed towards the gap at the end of the barricade.
Because they, too, carried pavises, their rate of fire was lower than that of their opponents, but despite the smaller total size of his army, Sir George actually had more missile troops than the other side did, for he'd recruited them ruthlessly from every tribe.
Sir George's missile troops swung their pavises aside and exposed themselves only when they actually launched one of their own javelins.
Because they, too, carried pavises, their rate of fire was lower than that of their opponents, but despite the smaller total size of his army, Sir George actually had more missile troops than the other side did, for he’d recruited them ruthlessly from every tribe.
Sir George’s missile troops swung their pavises aside and exposed themselves only when they actually launched one of their own javelins.
Black-shafted arrows hissed through the air, slamming into the pavises borne by the men.