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breastplate
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass [syn: aegis , egis ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breastplate \Breast"plate`\, n. A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. --Swift. A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A breastplate (used interchangeably with breastcollar , breaststrap and breastgirth ) is a piece of riding equipment used on horses. Its purpose is to keep the saddle or harness from sliding back. On riding horses, it is most helpful on horses with large ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A breastplate of darkness hid all the windows except one. ▪ Carlo was large as a steroid junkie yet not puffy-firmly outlined, with a chest like an armor breastplate . ▪ He's looking resplendent, you didn't know that he has a ...
Usage examples of breastplate.
Zenghils breastplate and the Atabeg galloped out of range with a shout of mocking laughter.
Seeing this, the good man, as carefully as he could, removed the breastplate and backpiece to see if he was wounded but did not see blood or cuts of any kind.
The backplate was solid, with hinges on the sides and the breastplate split along an overlapping seam in the middle.
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.
A dagger point raked along his ribs between breastplate and backplate, a sword-edge flashed before his eyes.
The Cuirassiers wore steel breastplates, helmets and backplates, and rode the heaviest horses of all the French cavalry.
The pikemen, in addition to their immensely long pikes, had leather armour: breastplates and backplates, what they called gorgets to protect their throats, and helmets that they called pots.
Stimon the Locrian and Opilmenos the Boeotian, their bronze helmets and breastplates glittering in the sun, their speeches of defiance one to the other, the marvels of valour and dexterity both had displayed.
He wore a gilded breastplate and greaves, and a leather helmet with brass cheekpieces and an orange feather crest.
She intended them to have red-lacquered breastplates to match their silk coats and breeches when she had time to spend on that sort of thing.
It was trying to knock the dents out of its breastplate with a small hammer.
These fishes, like the tortoise, the armadillo, the sea-hedgehog, and the Crustacea, are protected by a breastplate which is neither chalky nor stony, but real bone.
He looked as if all he needed was a breastplate and feathers in his hair to bring back the heyday of the Lakota warrior in the nineteenth century.
Each of the Makassar natives wore a breastplate and greaves, a metal cap, and a short sword, and held a round shield on his arm.
He wore full battle gear, something fewer than half the Guards possessed: black enameled breastplate and helm, rerebraces and pauldrons and gloves, unornamented save for the gold eagles of the House of Dare.