Crossword clues for baldrick
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baldric \Bal"dric\, n. [OE. baudric, bawdrik, through OF. (cf. F. baudrier and LL. baldringus, baldrellus), from OHG. balderich, cf. balz, palz, akin to E. belt. See Belt, n.] A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; it is used to support a sword or bugle by the left hip; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick and baldrick.]
A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied
Sustained the sword that glittered at his side.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
alt. A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. n. A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
WordNet
n. a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip [syn: baldric]
Wikipedia
Baldrick is the name of several fictional characters featured in the long-running BBC historic comedy television series Blackadder. Each one serves as Edmund Blackadder's servant and sidekick and acts as a foil to the lead character. Each series of Blackadder is set in a different period in British history, and each Baldrick character (as with the character of Edmund) is a descendant of the Baldrick from the preceding series. Just as Blackadder exists in many incarnations throughout the ages, so does Baldrick; whenever there is a Blackadder there is a Baldrick serving him. They are all portrayed by Sir Tony Robinson (although in the unaired pilot episode he was played by Philip Fox).
The relationship between Edmund and Baldrick evolves significantly; in the first series of the show, Baldrick is more intelligent than Blackadder, but this dynamic is reversed in subsequent series, with Baldrick's intelligence decreasing as the show continued. He is the only character other than Edmund Blackadder to appear in every episode of the programme.
Baldrick (also Baldric, Balderic) may refer to:
- Baldrick, several characters played by Tony Robinson on the BBC series Blackadder
- Baldric, a shoulder belt used to carry a weapon
- St. Baldrick's Foundation, a United States cancer-research charity
- Balderic, Abbot of Montfaucon, a 7th-century French saint
- Baldric of Friuli, a 9th-century Duke of Friuli
- Baldric of Dol (ca. 1050–1130), abbot of Bourgueil
- Balderic of Florennes (d. c. 1163), biographer
- Balderic of Utrecht, Bishop of Utrecht (917–975)
- Baldric (horse), (1961–1986) a Thoroughbred racehorse
Usage examples of "baldrick".
Softly I stepped to the bed-rail where I had hung my sword by the baldrick, and as softly I unsheathed it.
He swung his baldrick in front of him and, lifting the horn to his lips, began to blow a recheat.
A sheathed great sword hung from a baldrick between his shoulder blades.
We had now come to the road in front of the house, and Mount set his cap rakishly on his head, straightened cape and baldrick, and ran his fingers through the gorgeous thrums rippling from sleeve and thigh.
Then sounding three blasts upon the silver horn which hung at his baldrick, Calverley led the way slowly on the road to Hasfield, Trollop following, with a hang-dog look, behind.
Jack, torn between grief and laughter, went to see to Vulcan before the ancient Baldrick tried to attend to the matter and cut a life of loyal service untimely short.
Lord Baldrick Abbott dabbled in science, something Hetty would find dreadfully boring, and he tended to look down his over-large nose at women.
Lots of people, so far, have managed to live and die without making the acquaintance of Jeremy Mars, but Cleo Baldrick has left Jeremy Mars and his mother something strange in her will: a phone booth on a state highway, some forty miles outside of Las Vegas, and a Las Vegas wedding chapel.
Lord Brandoch Daha stood up, unbuckling from his shoulder his golden baldrick set with apricot-coloured sapphires and diamonds and fire-opals that imaged thunderbolts.
Finally he unlinked the baldrick from its anchoring belt and donned only the latter, folding the robe underneath it at his waist so that the hem fell no lower than his knees.
Beside him lay a feathered headpiece and a sword attached to a richly broidered baldrick.
Tangled in his spilled stock of belts, baldricks, gloves, purses and saddle-bags, Euan of Shotwick lay on his back, knees drawn up, a coarse sacking bag drawn half-over his lean face and greying head.
And the Tanner pointed where one came running, a man long of leg, long of arm and very bright of eye, a goodly man clad in hood and jerkin of neat's leather as aforetime, only now his bugle swung from baldrick of gold and silver and in his hood was brooched a long scarlet feather.
Around her neck was a thick chain or baldrick of gold, pearls and precious stones, and on her French hood was a rich trimming of gems and pearls.