Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ring-mail . - noun Armor made by sewing rings of metal on a background of leather or cloth. See cut in next column.
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Examples
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Near that of the man lay some ring-armor, a shield-buckle, two stones of a hand-mill for grinding corn, bits for bridles, stirrups, some gold finger rings and a fibula of the same metal.
Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Anna W. Ford Piper
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And when he smote ring-armor/the fire forth did flash.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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