armour plate

armour plate

n

(Military / Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc.

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armour plate - specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire armor plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour backplate - plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass beaver - a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face brassard - armor plate that protects the arm breastplate, egis, aegis - armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass cannon - (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere - medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head cubitiere - body armor that protects the elbow cuisse - armor plate that protects the thigh epauliere - armor plate that protects the shoulder fauld - a piece of armor plate below the breastplate gorget - armor plate that protects the neck greave, jambeau - armor plate that protects legs below the knee helmet - armor plate that protects the head knee piece - armor plate that protects the knee nosepiece - armor plate that protects the nose pallette, palette - one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor scale, shell, plate - a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) roundel - round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit skirt of tasses - armor plate that protects the body below the waist sabaton, solleret - armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel tasse, tasset - one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs tuille - armor plate that protects the hip and thigh visor, vizor - a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face