lobster-tailed pot
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Noun edit
lobster-tailed pot (plural lobster-tailed pots)
- A European combat helmet, worn especially from the 1600s into the 1700s, consisting of a rounded skull-piece, often cheek guards and a nasal or face-guard, and a laminated defence (or single plate ridged to imitate lames) to protect the back of the neck that resembled a lobster's tail.
- Synonyms: lobster pot, zischägge, harquebusier's pot, horseman's pot
- 1987, New Model Army:
- They wore a back-and-front breastplate over a buff leather coat, which itself gave some protection against sword cuts, and normally a "lobster-tailed pot" helmet with a movable three-barred visor, and a bridle gauntlet on the left hand.
- 2002, Philip Burton, Martin Marix Evans, M Westaway, Naseby-June 1645: English Civil War, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 24:
- The close helmet shown in the illustration was by this time giving place to the pot, the familiar lobster-tailed pot with side-pieces or cheeks and a barred, open face protection.
- 2009, John R. Elting, Swords Around A Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armée, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 276:
- During sieges, those sapeurs working in the entrenchments closest to the enemy's position would wear heavy cuirasses and pâts en tête (a helmet resembling the “lobster-tailed pot” worn by Cromwell's Ironsides), both painted black.
- 2015, David Clark, A Brief Guide To British Battlefields: From the Roman Occupation to Culloden, Robinson, →ISBN:
- Clad in the famous buff leather coat, breastplate and 'lobster-tailed pot' helmet, the New Model soldier is instantly recognizable to us. The disadvantage of using professional soldiers is that they have to be paid, and dissatisfaction ...
- 2017, Eric Flint, 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught, Baen Books, →ISBN:
- He jammed his own helmet onto his head. It was nowhere close to being as fancy a helmet as the one the woman had removed, just the common sort of lobster-tailed pot helmet known as a zischagge.
- 2017, Hannah Dennison, Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall: A Honeychurch Hall Mystery, Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 13:
- “Because I don't think that is a seventeenth-century helmet.” There was something odd about the smoothness of the crown. The skull of the lobster-tailed pot helmet was often fluted. Generally, they were made in two sections joined by a ...