Neckplate

Quick meaning: Neckplate is a noun meaning A piece of armour worn around the throat or neck; a gorget.

Meaning

A piece of armour worn around the throat or neck; a gorget.

More Meanings

1. An armor panel on a helmet which protects the neck.
2. A plate, used in tracheostomy, which prevents the tube from descending into the trachea.
3. A small, typically rectangular plate on the neck of a guitar (or bass, etc) through which screws are threaded to attach the neck to the body.

Example Sentences

Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard only; commemorative neckplate.

The shot went half a shaft-length deep, slanting from the third neckplate of his helmet toward the base of his left ear.

For a long time the neckplate or gorget was retained as part of the regular equipment and it even became exaggerated in size; but it finally became so small that […] it was little more than an ornament […]

Some gorget (neckplate) leather linings recovered from the Batavia (1629) were found to be in a very good state of preservation after 350 years' immersion (50). Under water, where it will invariably also be in a buried .

Word Forms

• neckplates
• neck plate
• neck-plate

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gorget, nodowa, pisane, hausse-col, neckguard, neckpiece.

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