pikeguard
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editNoun
editpikeguard (plural pikeguards)
- A passegarde (neck guard).
- 1900, Robert Coltman Clephan, The Defensive Armour and the Weapons and Engines of War of Mediæval Times: And of the "Renaissance":
- [page 65:] The pikeguard has ceased, sollerets are the shape of the foot, and he wears a morion. The morion and cabasset were late sixteenth and seventeenth century […]
[page 118:] The pauldrons, which are uneven in size, are surmounted by pikeguards; the left pauldron is the larger. These pieces consist of front and back plates, […]
- 1913, Herbert Walter Macklin, The Brasses of England, page 218:
- The pauldrons are single, and are fitted with high pikeguards to protect the neck from sidelong blows, the left side being the more carefully guarded.