Cataphract

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  • n. Defensive armor used for the entire body and often for the horse, also, especially the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
  • n. A horseman covered with a cataphract.
  • n. The armor or plate covering some fishes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
  • n. A horseman covered with a cataphract.
  • n. The armor or plate covering some fishes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An ancient defensive armor composed of scales of metal or other material sewed to a garment of leather or stuff, and covering often the whole body and the limbs, but not the head, upon which a helmet of another material was placed.
  • n. In zoology, the armor of plates or strong scales protecting some animals.
  • Fenced in; provided with bulwarks or a protecting covering; covered; protected: as, a cataphract war-galley.
  • Same as cataphracted.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. armor that protects the wearer's whole body
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Armour    armor   
    Hyponym
    chain armor    mail    corselet    ring armour    ring mail   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    black-armoured    all-enclosing    countershaft    countship    head-banging   
     
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