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armour-clad
ˈarmour-ˌclad, ppl. a. Clad in, or protected by, armour. Ellipt. as n. A vessel of war protected by a sheathing of iron or steel. Cf. ironclad a. 1 note. Also transf.1862 Cassell's Illustr. Fam. Paper 11 Jan. 104/2 The armour-clad vessels of the South. 1869 in Eng. Mech. 1 Oct. 32/2 Like an armour-c...
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Crupellarius
Equipment and style
The standard crupellarius was clad almost entirely from head to foot in lorica segmentata or laminar armour, which consisted of strips an obstacle, as the iron plates did not yield to javelins or swords; but our men, snatching up hatchets and pickaxes, hacked at their bodies and their armour
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clad
▪ I. clad, ppl. a. (klæd) [ME. clad(d, f. OE. cláðod, -ed, inflected cláðde, cládde: see clothe v. Clad belongs to all dialects; but, beside it, the north. dial. has cled, ME. cled(d, f. ON. klædd-r pa. pple. of klæða to clothe. As clad and cled are identical in meaning, they have been naturally tak...
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Iron armour
The use of iron gave rise to the term ironclad as a reference to a ship 'clad' in iron. Naval armour
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Indian armour
Guptas utilised heavy cavalry clad in mail armour and equipped with maces and lances, who would have used shock action to break the enemy line. Maratha armour
Maratha armour is very similar to the Mughal armour but in the Maratha army, the infantry used armour while the cavalry is always lightly
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Naval armour
Design
Belt armour
Belt armour is the main side armor on a warship. The use of iron gave rise to the term ironclad as a reference to a ship 'clad' in iron.
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Chinese armour
Deployment of armoured cavalry was common for the Northern Wei, especially among the "iron-clad" Erzhu tribe who specialized in armoured cavalry. Li Shimin's elite cavalry forces were known to have worn distinctive black "iron clad" armour, and Li Shimin himself was said to have been able to forgo
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Huyan Zhuo
Huyan then sends out his special cavalry consisting of groups of armour-clad horses linked by iron chains. After Shi Qian stole an impenetrable armour of Xu, a precious ancestral heirloom, Tang tricks the instructor to pursue the elusive thief until he comes
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Sengoku 2
The player can transform the character into three different forms including, the armour-clad wolf, the shuriken-throwing ninja and the staff-wielding Tengu
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Bobby Chen (pianist)
has been praised by the Independent, Guardian, Irish Examiner, and Straits Times newspapers and was described by International Piano Magazine as "an armour-clad
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Palazzo Magnani Feroni
The entrance-way dates back to the 17th century and leads to the iron gate decorated with the coat-of-arms of the Feroni family: an armour-clad arm, holding
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Clibanarii
There are several theories to the origins of this name, one being that the men were literally nicknamed "camp oven-bearers", due to the amount of armour The Persians opposed us serried bands of mail-clad horsemen in such close order that the gleam of moving bodies covered with closely fitting plates of
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The Great Relief
Above his outstretched right arm, there are two large figures to the left, a man in women's clothing called 'Weakness', tyrannized by a woman, an armour-clad
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Lionel Royer
the fortress or at Compiègne offer Royer, the painter of historical scenes, an opportunity to demonstrate his skill in composition, with the tangle of armour-clad
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