armour platearmor platen.
/ˌɑːmə ˈpleɪt/, U.S. /ˈɑrmər ˌpleɪt/ 1. Any of several metal plates or pieces forming a protective or defensive covering; spec. any of the thick plates of iron or steel with which the sides of a warship are covered. Also as a mass noun: protective or defensive material made from these.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing > armour-plating
belting1567
armour plate1683
belt1822
armour1838
armour plating1860
cuirass1860
belt armour1866
water-line armour1884
glacis plate1889
1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker i. iii. 12 in Fleta Minor i An Assay Oven made of Armour-plates [Ger. von Harnisch Blech].
1721 Daily Post 15 Apr. (advt.) Thomas Rhodes..has a good Quantity of tough Plate, made of Orground's Iron, commonly call'd Armour Plate..fit for any Business in Armoury.
1786 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. I. Index 427/2 Armour plate, when first in general use.
1863 A. Wynter Subtle Brains xxii. 235 The Admiralty have lately taken to manufacture their own armour-plates.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour x. 187 We add inch to inch in the thickness of our armour-plates.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air i. 11 Some confusion of ideas about armour plates.
1940 R. W. B. Clarke Britain's Blockade 17 Armour plate of high resistance power and armour-piercing bombs of great penetrating power.
2009 Independent 4 July 34/2 Its bolt-on armour plates only provide protection against 7.62mm ammunition.
2. Originally U.S. Toughened sheet glass (in full armour-plate glass); = armour glass n. at armour n. Compounds.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.Also called armoured glass.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > toughened glass
wire glass1894
armour glass1907
safety glass1912
armour plate1914
triplex1923
1914 Springfield (Mass.) Daily Republican 16 Feb. 8/4 What has become of that..armor-plate glass which was heralded only a year or so ago as a rival of steel plate in unbreakableness?
1929 Amer. Glass Rev. 27 Apr. 496 The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announce selection of the name ‘Armor-Plate’ for the bullet-proof glass now being manufactured by the company.
1941 Archit. Rev. 89 97 The balustrade is formed of ‘armour-plate’ glass.
1991 Argus (Cape Town) 16 Apr. 7 (advt.) Constructed from superior quality aluminium and armourplate toughened Safety Glass, they are built to withstand the toughest weather.
2012 Port Pirie (S. Austral.) Recorder 14 May The [fire] truck has armour-plate glass, quarter-inch steel plating and sprinklers to protect the occupants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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