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Form of armour
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chain mail
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chainmail refers to Mail (armour) Chain mail or Chain Mail may also refer to: Sending letters to multiple people, forming a chain; see Chain letter Chainmail (game) , a wargame which was the precursor to Dungeons & Dragons Chain Mail , novel by Diane Carey ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chain \Chain\ (ch[=a]n), n. [F. cha[^i]ne, fr. L. catena. Cf. Catenate .] A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings [syn: ring mail , mail , chain armor , chain armour , ring armor , ring armour ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eleventh-century Norman knight with chain mail coat, kite-shaped shield, sword and long lance which could be used from horseback. ▪ It began to appear more convoluted, interlocking chain mail ... some sort of suit. ▪ Knight, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings. Etymology 2 n. chain letter, taken collectively.
Usage examples of chain mail.
Tolliver is a talented and creative maker of chain mail armor and so, inspired no doubt by the literary splendors of this august series, he crafted chain mail for five (count 'em, five) stuffed chickens.
Salla had insisted that I hide in the bathroom before anybody else saw me, pointing out that a six-foot warrior woman in bronze chain mail would probably make the police seriously nervous.
In silence, her red chain mail looking vivid and outlandish against the frosty gray backdrop of the woods, she climbed behind his saddle.
Now and again, she heard the chink of spears, the faint metallic slither of chain mail, but even those sounds were muffled.
The black of her back was glossy beneath her chain mail, and her chest, belly, and legs were white, so heavily ticked with black that from any distance they looked blue silver.