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Definition of Ring mail
1. Noun. (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings.
Generic synonyms: Body Armor, Body Armour, Cataphract, Coat Of Mail, Suit Of Armor, Suit Of Armour
Specialized synonyms: Brigandine, Habergeon, Byrnie, Hauberk, Gusset, Voider
Category relationships: Dark Ages, Middle Ages
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring Mail
Literary usage of Ring mail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chinese Clay Figures by Berthold Laufer (1914)
"HISTORY OF CHAIN MAIL AND ring mail Steed threatens steed, ... ring mail is
composed of rows of overlapping iron or steel rings fastened upon a heavy ..."
2. Highways and Byways in Dorset by Frederick Treves, Joseph Pennell (1906)
"of the man in ring-mail recall the story of a strange wooing and of the founding
of a great peerage. Robert of Gloucester, the The Garden ..."
3. The Story of Ireland by Standish O'Grady (1894)
"Now the Normans, owning a different code of honour, entered Ireland in glittering
suits of ring- mail, and were at first regarded with extreme contempt by ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1886)
"Again, the appearance of the armour which he called Ring-mail is nothing more
than the result of the rude art of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth ..."
5. A Key to English Antiquities: With Special Reference to the Sheffield and by Ella S. Armitage (1897)
"... Monuments — Canopies—Brasses—Inscriptions—Armour—Ring-mail —The Surcoat—Armour
in the ... Ringmail ..."
6. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1841)
"The plate mail was much more cumbrous than the chain mail, a complete suit of
ring mail, still in existence, weighing thirty-nine ..."
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