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• armour plate — noun specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire • Syn: ↑armor plate, ↑armor plating, ↑plate armor, ↑plate armour • Hypernyms: ↑plate, ↑scale, ↑shell …   Useful english dictionary

• Armour — (or armor) is protective covering, most commonly manufactured from metals, to prevent damage from being inflicted to an individual or a vehicle through use of direct contact weapons or projectiles, usually during combat. While early armour tended …   Wikipedia

• plate armour — noun specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire • Syn: ↑armor plate, ↑armour plate, ↑armor plating, ↑plate armor • Hypernyms: ↑plate, ↑scale, ↑shell …   Useful english dictionary

• plate armor — noun specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire • Syn: ↑armor plate, ↑armour plate, ↑armor plating, ↑plate armour • Hypernyms: ↑plate, ↑scale, ↑shell …   Useful english dictionary

• front-stall — noun medieval plate armor to protect a horse s head • Syn: ↑chanfron, ↑chamfron, ↑testiere, ↑frontstall • Hypernyms: ↑armor plate, ↑armour plate, ↑armor plating, ↑plate a …   Useful english dictionary

• Plate armour — is personal armour made from large metal plates, worn on the chest and sometimes the entire body. History Plate armour protecting the chest and the lower limbs was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but it fell into disuse after the collapse… …   Wikipedia

• armour — /ahr meuhr/, n. Chiefly Brit. armor. Usage. See our. * * * or body armour Protective clothing that can shield the wearer from weapons and projectiles. By extension, armour is also protective covering for animals, vehicles, and so on. Prehistoric… …   Universalium

• Armour — /ahr meuhr/, n. Philip Danforth /dan fawrth, fohrth/, 1832 1901, U.S. meat packing industrialist. * * * or body armour Protective clothing that can shield the wearer from weapons and projectiles. By extension, armour is also protective covering… …   Universalium

• Armour —    Is employed in the English Bible to denote military equipment, both offensive and defensive.    1) The offensive weapons were different at different periods of history. The rod of iron (Ps. 2:9) is supposed to mean a mace or crowbar, an… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Compound armour — was a type of armour used on warships in the 1880s. By the end of the decade it had been rendered obsolete by nickel steel armour. Prior armours Prior to the 1880s, all naval armour plating was made from uniform homogeneous wrought iron plates on …   Wikipedia

• Vehicle armour — For body armour see armour, for armoured forces see armoured warfare, for other uses see armour (disambiguation).Military vehicles are commonly armoured to withstand the impact of shrapnel, bullets, missiles, or shells, protecting the personnel… …   Wikipedia