A piece of armour covering the shoulder; a shoulder plate. Also in extended use.

A piece of armour protecting the shoulder; a shoulder plate.

Each of a pair of pieces of leather or other material worn over the shoulders as part of the accoutrements of an armoured knight or man-at-arms.

The shoulder-piece in plate armour; = pauldron pouldron, n. forms.

Perhaps: a small piece of armour protecting the head or upper body; an epaulette.

Armour. A piece of armour covering the shoulder.

Used by antiquarian writers as a name for the smaller forms of the shoulder-piece or ‘pauldron’ in a suit of armour.

a shield-shaped piece of armour used to protect the shoulder.

(a) Armour a piece of armour covering the point of the shoulder (= epaulette, n. 3); (b) Surgery see quot. 1895.

A plate of metal worn instead of an epaulette by soldiers, sailors, and firemen.

= shoulder-piece, n. 1.