Bodyplate

Quick meaning: Bodyplate is a noun meaning A protective plate that covers the torso.

Meaning

A protective plate that covers the torso.

Example Sentences

There was blood in his armour, too. He could feel it sticking to the inside of his bodyplate like a second skin.

Inside it had rows upon rows of armour. Some rows of helmets, some of platelegs, bodyplates, gauntlets and boots.

Almost as an afterthought, he reached up to check that the camera lens in the left shoulder-pad of his Kevlar bodyplate wasn’t obstructed, then adjusted his helmet mike. It wasn’t a new experience for them go into battle with each man hooked up to Ops via combined video and audio links.

His horse and himself are both heavily laden with armour of a most elaborate kind, but quite fanciful; for instance, there is a small spade-shaped shield on his gorget containing the three lilies, a lion’s head on his breastplate, and a scorpion or lobster on his bodyplate, beneath which he wears a briganture of mail.

Word Forms

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