Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scute.
- noun A shield-shaped dorsal sclerite or plate of certain insects and arachnids.
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- noun historical An
oblong shield made of boards orwickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of theRoman army. - noun zoology A
scute . - noun zoology One of the two lower
valves of theoperculum of abarnacle . - noun obsolete A
penthouse orawning .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His men were armed with round shields and long spears, the Romans had the large shield called the scutum, a better protection for the body, and the javelin, a much more effective weapon than the spear whether for hurling or thrusting.
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They carried a big, oblong shield scutum and wielded a sword with a broad, straight blade, about a foot and a half long.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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With his fifteen-pound scutum, a strong murmillo could hit harder, but a fast thraex could get in more blows in rapid succession with his seven-pound parmula.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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With his fifteen-pound scutum, a strong murmillo could hit harder, but a fast thraex could get in more blows in rapid succession with his seven-pound parmula.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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They carried a big, oblong shield scutum and wielded a sword with a broad, straight blade, about a foot and a half long.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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They carried a big, oblong shield scutum and wielded a sword with a broad, straight blade, about a foot and a half long.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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They carried a big, oblong shield scutum and wielded a sword with a broad, straight blade, about a foot and a half long.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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With his fifteen-pound scutum, a strong murmillo could hit harder, but a fast thraex could get in more blows in rapid succession with his seven-pound parmula.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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With his fifteen-pound scutum, a strong murmillo could hit harder, but a fast thraex could get in more blows in rapid succession with his seven-pound parmula.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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From being a very militantly prosletysing "cum scutum et ignis" - by Sword and Fire - movement, it matured, and led by example rather than conquest.
Two Civil Wars Zoe Brain 2005
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