WordNet
n. (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings [syn: chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armour, ring armor, ring armour]
Usage examples of "chain armor".
Plate had to be shaped to the individual the way a tailor hand-cut a good formal suit, and the level of time and trouble required was a whole order of magnitude greater than with the mostly chain armor they were using.
The reasons for this were simple: plate or chain armor would hamper his ability to move and fire quickly, and leather armor provided little protection against arrows.
Their senior clan leader wore light chain armor over boiled leather and bore a huge and obviously ancient battle ax.
The weapon was a ballock-dagger, its hilt connecting to a needle-pointed triangular sliver of blade, designed specially to pierce chain armor.
Two were soldiers, tall and muscular in chain armor, swords belted to their waists, each leaning a short stabbing spear against the wall.
Unlike human armies, who must cart about blacksmith forges and heavily laden supply wagons, the elves wore no plate or chain armor, carried no heavy swords or shields.
The saurial forced her arms down from her chest, revealing a healthy cleavage between her breasts that Alias's enchanted chain armor did not cover.
Now Flint and Ruberik could see the wrinkles in their grotesque faces, the links of their chain armor.
The razor edge of Elven steel slipped in between the steel shoulder guard and the steel neck-collar of his enemy's armor, sinking through bearskin vest, chain armor, flesh, and bone, to sever his attacker's arm cleanly at the joint.