Corslet

Word CORSLET
Character 7
Hyphenation cors let
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Definitions and meanings of "Corslet"

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See corselet.

A corselet. noun

Alternative form of corselet. noun

A piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece noun

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The word "corslet" in example sentences

They have another kind of corslet, made like the corsets of our ladies, of splinters of hard wood interlaced with nettle twine. ❋ Unknown (1854)

a coat of mail -- a kind of corslet, quilted with leather or plates of metal, reaching only to the chest, and supported by shoulder straps, leaving the shoulders and arms at full liberty. ❋ Unknown (1871)

He sighed a moment, as was visible, in spite of gorget and corslet, and then added, ❋ Unknown (2008)

The gleam of the sunbeams upon his head-piece and corslet showed that he was in armour, and the purpose of the other travellers required that he should not pass unquestioned. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It covered a corslet, which had once been of polished steel, fairly gilded, but was now somewhat injured with rust. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The temper of the corslet threw the point of the weapon upwards, but a deep wound took place between the neck and shoulder; and the force of the blow prostrated the bridegroom on the floor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The assassin hovered less than an instant over the sleeper, as if to mark the interval between the ill-fated silver corslet, and the body which it was designed to protect, when, at the instant the blow was rushing to its descent, the ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus in the military training itself he gave up the practice with bow and javelin, leaving his men to perfect themselves in the use of sabre, shield, and corslet, accustoming them from the very first to the thought that they must close with the enemy, or confess themselves worthless as fellow-combatants; a harsh conclusion for those who knew that they were only protected in order to fight on behalf of their protectors. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their spears were immensely stout and long, such as they carry to this day, and the huge shield not only gave more protection than corslet and buckler, but aided the thrust of the fighter, slung as it was from the shoulder. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[2] The eight-horse chariot of Abradatas was a marvel of beauty and richness; and just as he was about to put on the linen corslet of his native land, Pantheia came, bringing him a golden breastplate and a helmet of gold, and armlets and broad bracelets for his wrists, and a full flowing purple tunic, and a hyacinth-coloured helmet-plume. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Each of us will wear a corslet fitted to his breast and carry a shield on his left arm of the type to which we are all accustomed, and in his right hand a sabre or a battle-axe. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Ivanhoe, as thou well knowest, is unable to bear his corslet, and Richard is in a foreign prison. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And, — forgive the boast, Sir Knight, — thou shalt this day see the naked breast of a Saxon as boldly presented to the battle as ever ye beheld the steel corslet of a ❋ Unknown (2004)

For these endeavored to cut the spears asunder with their swords, or to beat them back with their shields, or put them by with their hands; and, on the other side, the Macedonians held their long sarissas in both hands, and pierced those that came in their way quite through their armor, no shield or corslet being able to resist the force of that weapon. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

And with this he wounded Eumenes under the bottom of his corslet in the groin, but in truth more frightened than hurt him; his blow being faint for want of strength. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Curtius, where they ran up and struck at him as he lay in his corslet. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Therefore drawing up the Achaeans on each side of the stage-passages, he came forward himself upon the stage, with his corslet still on, and his face showing the effects of all his hard work and want of sleep, so that his natural exultation and joyfulness of mind were overborne by the weariness of his body. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

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