Crossword clues for mantlet
mantlet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mantelet \Man"tel*et\, n. [F., dim. of manteau, OF. mantel. See Mantle.]
A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
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A short cloak or mantle worn by women.
A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging.
--Chaucer.
(Fort.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A short sleeveless cloak or cape. 2 (context military now historical English) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.
WordNet
n. portable bulletproof shelter [syn: mantelet]
Usage examples of "mantlet".
With a swish like the rush of wings, a flight of arrows swept across the narowing gulf and thudded home, mostly out of sight behind the mantlets that lined the rail of the galley.
The damaged vehicle burned sullenly, occasional explosions jarring the ground and sending tongues of flame through its hatches and around the gun that lay slanting toward the ground, its mantlet slammed free of the surrounding armor.
They had found an ox-cart, and mounted the mantlet on the wheels, great solid disks of oak.
The ram was released, and the mantlet began to recede from the gate as swiftly as it had advanced.
They had mounted the mantlet on the wheels of an ox-cart they had found, great solid disks of oak, and as they rolled it ponderously before them the defenders had only glimpses of their moving feet.
But, with a deepthroated shout, the mantlet was pushed to the wall, and an iron-tipped boom, thrust through an aperture in the center of the shield, began to thunder on the gate, driven by muscle-knotted arms.
Even so, one stone struck a mantlet straight on, reducing it to a cloud of splinters and blood, then skipped further to crush another soldier.
Genoan raised his arm over his mantlet, and shook it at us, a hundred paces from our line.
Long were the faces of the Englishmen and broad the laugh of the crossbowmen as the heavy mantlet was carried towards them, for there in the centre was the thick Brabant bolt driven deeply into the wood, while there was neither sign nor trace of the cloth-yard shaft.
They had found an oxcart and mounted the mantlet on the wheels, which were great solid disks of oak.
Cut down a big ironwood, they did, an put er on wheels, with a mantlet to cover.
The main gun moved in its gyro-controlled cradle, a feint humming whine as the mantlet moved, the breech riding up smoothly.
The Kearsarge, on the other hand, was in good order, with mantlets of chain cable protecting her vitals, with one-third greater horse power, with fourteen more men in her crew, and with two big pivot guns throwing eleven inch shells with great force at short ranges.
Alabamas never saw the chain mantlets which the Kearsarges had cleverly hidden under a covering of wood that appeared to be flush with the hull.
Presently a shower of flaming arrows, trailing tails of black smoke, whistled into the mantlets and thudded into the bare, green decks.