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Definition of Plate armor

1. Noun. Specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plate Armor

Literary usage of Plate armor

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)
"V. THE PROBLEM OF plate armor "The skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"plate armor. In general it may be said that at first all plate armor used was for reinforcing mail or other armor. The full panoply (cap-a-pied) was in use ..."

3. The Story of Modern Progress: With a Preliminary Survey of Earlier Progress by Willis Mason West (1920)
"... IN plate armor, visor up. ... plate armor came in only about 1300, succeeding a lighter armor of chain mail. ..."

4. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"-laivasto fleet of battleships (1. of dreadnoughts), -levy armor-plate; plate armor. -paita coat of mall; cuirass, ..."

5. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"In the llth century the hauberk was worn under plate-armor. Hausse, Pendulum. Is a scale of sheet- brass, the graduations of which are the sines of each ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"Without detailing the gradual but constant encroachment of plate armor upon ... The whole suit is fluted; the neck is Fluted and Perfected plate armor of ..."

7. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1898)
"And so we still have plate-armor: there are two large factories in Europe which are devoted to the making of plate-armor which is very good plate-armor. ..."

8. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Plate- armor was substituted in its place; and the man-at-arms, cased in entire steel, the several pieces firmly riveted, and proof against every stroke, ..."

9. Chinese Clay Figures by Berthold Laufer (1914)
"V. THE PROBLEM OF plate armor "The skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"plate armor. In general it may be said that at first all plate armor used was for reinforcing mail or other armor. The full panoply (cap-a-pied) was in use ..."

11. The Story of Modern Progress: With a Preliminary Survey of Earlier Progress by Willis Mason West (1920)
"... IN plate armor, visor up. ... plate armor came in only about 1300, succeeding a lighter armor of chain mail. ..."

12. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"-laivasto fleet of battleships (1. of dreadnoughts), -levy armor-plate; plate armor. -paita coat of mall; cuirass, ..."

13. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"In the llth century the hauberk was worn under plate-armor. Hausse, Pendulum. Is a scale of sheet- brass, the graduations of which are the sines of each ..."

14. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"Without detailing the gradual but constant encroachment of plate armor upon ... The whole suit is fluted; the neck is Fluted and Perfected plate armor of ..."

15. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1898)
"And so we still have plate-armor: there are two large factories in Europe which are devoted to the making of plate-armor which is very good plate-armor. ..."

16. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Plate- armor was substituted in its place; and the man-at-arms, cased in entire steel, the several pieces firmly riveted, and proof against every stroke, ..."

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