PLATE ARMOUR
Dictionary entry overview: What does plate armour mean?
• PLATE ARMOUR (noun)
The noun PLATE ARMOUR has 1 sense:
1. specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire
Familiarity information: PLATE ARMOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLATE ARMOUR (noun)
Meaning:
Specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
armor plate; armor plating; armour plate; plate armor; plate armour
Hypernyms ("plate armour" is a kind of...):
plate; scale; shell (a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plate armour"):
backplate (plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass)
helmet (armor plate that protects the head)
knee piece (armor plate that protects the knee)
nosepiece (armor plate that protects the nose)
palette; pallette (one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor)
roundel (round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit)
skirt of tasses (armor plate that protects the body below the waist)
sabaton; solleret (armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel)
tasse; tasset (one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs)
tuille (armor plate that protects the hip and thigh)
greave; jambeau (armor plate that protects legs below the knee)
gorget (armor plate that protects the neck)
beaver (a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face)
brassard (armor plate that protects the arm)
aegis; breastplate; egis (armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass)
cannon ((Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm)
chamfron; chanfron; front-stall; frontstall; testiere (medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head)
cubitiere (body armor that protects the elbow)
cuisse (armor plate that protects the thigh)
epauliere (armor plate that protects the shoulder)
fauld (a piece of armor plate below the breastplate)
visor; vizor (a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face)
