Hauberk

Quick meaning: Hauberk is a noun meaning (less common) A similar shirt of scale armour, plate, leather, or other armor material.

Meaning

(less common) A similar shirt of scale armour, plate, leather, or other armor material.

More Meanings

1. A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless.

Example Sentences

The hauberk was to the Norman what the byrnie was to the Saxon, the chief method of bodily defence.

Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.

Because the call to arms had come so quickly, he'd not had time to don his chain-mail armor, only a light, plate hauberk that covered his shoulders and torso.

One, which was destined later to usurp the field completely, consisted of a sleeved mail or scale hauberk, probably of eastern, Iranian, origin, descending to the knees.

Word Forms

• hauberks

Synonyms for hauberk

Depending on context, synonyms include byrnie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include byrnie, habergeon, houppelande, camail, tabard, huke.

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