shinplate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]shinplate (plural shinplates)
- (uncommon) An item of plate armour covering the shin; a greave.
- 2003, David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random:
- This helmet is part of a set of armour, also comprising collar, pair of pauldrons, vambraces (armplate) and greaves (shinplate). The pieces come as field armour fitted with extra pieces for lighter field use.
- 2010 05, Jason R. Jones, The Exodus: Of Spiders and Falcons, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 139:
- The dwarven priest followed, keeping his distance, and trying to time his crunching steps in steel plate armor and […] Azenairk looked up, his shinplate just having kicked into a rock on the side of the trail, the two men drawing […]
- 2018 August 7, Paul Tassi, Herokiller: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- His armored feet dug chunks out of the wall as he scrambled toward the very top. Finally, when gravity would let him rise no more, [... he] slid the hidden knife out of its sheath in his shinplate. He wrenched himself upward, over the lip, […]