| 单词 | ring-mail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasring-mail ring-mail n. = mail n.3 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > mail-armour mailc1330 mailurec1450 couplet-harness1609 chain-armoura1797 ring armoura1797 ring-mail1804 chain-mail1822 iron cloth1840 mail armour1845 1804 E. King Munimenta Antiqua III. iii. i. 91 The coat of ring mail, or chain mail, seems to have been that, which so encumbered David. that he could not go with it. 1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour I. 181 A housing of ring-mail half riveted. 1885 C. J. Lyall Anc. Arab. Poetry 31 The ring-mail set close and firm. 1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples I. ii. i. 126 They..were clad in proof, but..they cast aside their ring-mail. 1999 S. Heaney tr. Beowulf (2000) 65 Danes are at the table, being entertained, honoured guests in glittering regalia, burnished ring-mail that was their hosts' birthright, looted when the Heathobards could no longer wield their weapons. < as lemmas |
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