Crossword clues for hauberk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hauberk \Hau"berk\ (h[add]"b[~e]rk), n. [OF. hauberc, halberc,
F. haubert, OHG. halsberc; hals neck + bergan to protect, G.
bergen; akin to AS. healsbeorg, Icel. h[=a]lsbj["o]rg. See
Collar, and Bury, v. t.]
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the
European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which
is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is
often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon.
--Chaucer.
Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail.
--Gray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless.
WordNet
n. a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor [syn: byrnie]
Wikipedia
A hauberk is a shirt of mail. The term is usually used to describe a shirt reaching at least to mid-thigh and including sleeves. Haubergeon ("little hauberk") generally refers to a smaller version of the hauberk, but the terms are often used interchangeably.
Usage examples of "hauberk".
I will now go and skin that troll who went so nigh to slay thee, and break up the carcase, if thou wilt promise to abide about the door of the house, and have thy sword and the spear ready to hand, and to don thine helm and hauberk to boot.
Over kilts and loose shirts, all wore knee-long mail hauberks, belted at the hips with thick leather bands sporting huge buckles of brass or polished steel from which depended a sword of some descriptioneverything from native short swords and brass-hilted boarding cutlasses to European and Middle Eastern military brandsat least one each of dirk and dagger and one or more pistols, metal flasks of powder and cour bouilli boxes for lead balls and spanners.
Foster remembered confronting a tall, slender man, probably a chief, as he was mounted on a bay cobby and wore a rust-spotted chain-mail hauberk.
Clothing racks of hair shirts, habergeons, hauberks and herringbone suits.
He was dressed, as were all his fellow Moonites, in cloth-of-metal which, with a helmet fitted to its hauberk, protected his life from an im- possibility - the threat of the System collapsing.
And he arose and did on his hauberk and basnet, and girt his sword to his side, and went forth, a-foot as before.
Sweyn rose mumbling through a mouthful of rich brewis as Wulfgar threw on his hauberk and coif and set his helm to his head.
The hauberk shone as it were wrought of silver untarnished, and the sunbeam gilded it with sparks of gold.
Wulfgar strode out of the hall and barked an order to his men as Sweyn came to him, carrying his hauberk and helm.
There he sat unhelmed with the dwarf-wrought hauberk about him, holding Throngplough in its sheath across his knees, while he gave word to this and that man concerning the order of the host.
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.
George, and the more so if Sir Nigel Loring, of Christchurch, should don hauberk once more and take the lead of us.
What now is thy wont in the handplay with the helm and the hauberk of rings?
The servt bowed and m out, returnillg almost at once his hauberk and fully armed.
When Abdullah arrived he found Otei wearing an oversized mail hauberk and a visored, dog-faced bascinet, edged with gold leaf, a heraldic crest of silver and gold centered on its brow and a wealth of brightly dyed plumes socketed atop its crown.