armoured, ppl. a.
(ˈɑːməd)
[f. armour v.]
1. Clad in armour; also transf.
| 1601 Chester Love's Mart. lxxvii, The Brytaines went not proudly armoured. 1872 Tennyson Last Tourn. 170 One knight..armour'd all in forest-green. 1876 Daily News 30 Sept. 3/2 Lusty fish, armoured in red and gold. |
2. a. esp. of war-vessels; cf. armour-clad. Also, of military vehicles, aircraft, etc., and of forces supplied with armoured vehicles or warfare carried on by their use.
| 1862 Guardian 16 Apr. 366/2 Fighting armoured gunboats ‘down’ stream. 1869 E. J. Reed Iron-Clad Ships Introd. 12 Our armoured frigates. 1900 J. Ralph Towards Pretoria vii. 115 The destruction of a British armoured train. 1911 Sci. Amer. 22 Apr. 410/3 Armoured cars in the Mexican Revolution... An ordinary box car..is sheathed inside with quarter-inch steel plates. 1914 Illustr. War News 21 Oct. 16/1 Armoured aeroplanes carrying machine-guns. Ibid. 28 Oct. 32 An armoured car outside the Headquarters Hotel at Ostend. 1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 15/1 His bogged transport and armoured fighting vehicles were vulnerable to air attack. 1945 News Chron. 18 Apr. 1/5 The advance of the 7th Armoured Division and the 4th Armoured Brigade..was cut in two places. 1947 R. W. Cooper Nuremberg Trial viii. 166 General Guderian, Germany's foremost expert on armoured warfare. |
b. Of cables, hoses or the like: encased in armouring.
| 1898 E. J. Houston Dict. Electr. Words (ed. 4) 67/1 Cable, Armored, an electric cable provided, in addition to its insulating coating, with a protective coating or sheathing, generally made of metal tubing or wire. 1930 Engineering 7 Mar. 324/3 The suction pipe of the pump is an armoured hose. 1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) viii. 5 Armoured flexible conveyor, a heavy duty chain conveyer designed to carry a coalcutter or power loader on the framework and capable of being continually snaked forward, section by section, as the face advances. |
3. Of glass: toughened. (Cf. armour-plate 2.)
| 1935 Economist 7 Dec. 1140/2 Laminated or sandwich glass [and]..toughened or armoured glass..are termed safety glass..used for [car] windows and windscreens. 1949 Archit. Rev. CV. 181 An armoured glass table the length of the wall below the window provides a large working space. |
______________________________
▸ armoured fighting vehicle n. Mil. (orig. Brit.) any of various types of military vehicle equipped with armour protection, including tanks, armoured cars, personnel carriers, etc.; abbreviated AFV.
| 1927 Times 15 July 11/5 The expression ‘*armoured fighting vehicles’ (A.F.V.) has been added to the Army vocabulary. Something of the sort was needed, in order to distinguish vehicles that are self-contained for actual fighting from those which are used to move the other arms of the Service about. 1955 C. M. Green et al. Ordnance Dept. 269 The British Tank Mission and the United States Tank Committee reached agreement on a wide range of questions concerning armored fighting vehicles. 2001 Jane's Defence Weekly (Nexis) 3 Oct. The contract..covers the manufacture, installation and support of the BGTI systems into the Warrior armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) fleet. |