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ˈarmour-ˌplate
1. One of the metal pieces or plates forming the material of defensive armour; esp. one of the plates of iron or steel with which the sides of vessels of war are covered. Hence armour-plated ppl. a.; also fig., insensitive to attack; callous. armour-plating vbl. n. (used concr. for ‘armour-plates’).
1860J. Clare in Evening Standard 30 Oct. 3/5, I am the originator of placing timber between..the internal metal and fastening and the external armour-plating. 1863A. Wynter Subtle Brains xxii. 235 The Admiralty have lately taken to manufacture their own armour-plates. 1863Illustr. London News 13 June 658/1 The frames of armour-plated ships. 1894Cassell's Fam. Mag. Dec. 69/2 Hard armour-plated gambling. 1864Tennent Story of Guns 227 Supposed to be an insuperable obstacle to the use of Armour-plating. 1869E. J. Reed Iron-Clad Ships i. 6 A main-deck battery armour-plated. 1874Boutell Arms & Arm. x. 187 We add inch to inch in the thickness of our armour-plates. 1906Westm. Gaz. 17 July 10/1 His armour-plated indifference. 1908H. G. Wells War in Air i. 11 Some confusion of ideas about armour plates. 1909Ibid. 13 Aug. 3/1 His incisive humour, which got between the joints of his armour-plated victims. 1940[see armour-piercing adj..].
2. The trade name of a kind of toughened plate glass; = armour(ed) glass.
1931in Trade Marks Jrnl. 25 Nov. 1560/1. 1932 Jrnl. Soc. Glass Technol. XVI. 78 Now comes a further development, namely, the glass described by Messrs. Pilkington Bros. as ‘Armour plate’ or ‘toughened glass’. 1933Ibid. XVII. 149 ‘Armourplate’ is the trade name given to plate glass which..has acquired a degree of strength far in excess of that with which the original plate glass was endowed, and the property, if broken, of shattering into small and comparatively harmless fragments. 1941Archit. Rev. LXXXIX. 97 The balustrade is formed of ‘armour-plate’ glass. |