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Having a hard shell
Answer for the clue "Having a hard shell ", 8 letters:
loricate
Word definitions for loricate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loricate \Lor"i*cate\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (lb en transitive) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates. Etymology 2 1 (lb en microbiology) Possessing an enclosing shell or test. 2 (lb en zoology) Of or pertaining to the (taxlink Loricata ...
Usage examples of loricate.
Then one of the portals was swung half open and they were confronted by a gap-toothed, one-eyed giant of a man, wearing a well-oiled tunic of loricated armor and a brass-and-leather helm, with a huge, spiked ax on his shoulder.
Two or three went in loricated jerkins, one in a cuirass of boiled leather, another in an old, threadbare brigandine.
He was an oldster, he had white hair and wrinkles even, but he was a hard-ass, that was clear, wearing a loricated armor, armor made of curved plates that overlapped like the carapace of a centipede.
They were in full armor, loricated plate and barbute helmets, and armed with short boarding pikes.
The loricated legionnaire armor was made of overlapping steel plates, lorica, that were effectively thin steel bands held together by small fittings on the inside.
Gunny was still breathing but he had a gash the size of a forearm in his side, the heavy blow from the orc having smashed the loricated plate in.