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vamplate Now Archæol.|ˈvæmpleɪt|
Forms: α. 5 vaun- (faun-), 6 van-, vantplate. β. 6 Sc. wamplat, 6– vamplate, 7, 9 vamplet.
[f. AF. va(u)n-, va(u)nt-, vant- + plate plate n.]
A plate fixed on a spear or lance to serve as a guard for the hand, esp. in tilting.
αc1350Lybeaus Desc. 1644 (K.), Lokeþ ȝour scheldes be strong, Ȝour schaftes good and long, Ȝour saket and vaunplate. 1508Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 137 Tua vant plates, tua spere hedis, tua suordis. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 78 The speres brake in the kynges hande to the vantplate all to sheuers. 1598Florio, Calce,..a vanplate, the iron about a tilting-staffe neere the hand.
β1534Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 190 For ij marekyn skynnis to lyne the twa wamplatis to the Kingis speris. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. vii. (1912) 387 Amphialus..let his staffe fall to Agenors vamplat. 1632Guillim's Heraldry iv. xiii. 343 This vamplet..is of steele and is vsed for the safegard of the Tilters hand, and is taken off and put on to the staffe or speare at pleasure. 1660in Archaeologia XI. 99 Vamplets for tilting staves. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vamplate, a Gauntlet, or Iron-Glove. c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. 1869Boutell Arms & Armour viii. 128 At the handle the shaft passed through a small circular shield, or hand-guard (called a vamplate), which was fixed to the shaft of the lance. 1898Visct. Dillon in Archaeol. Jrnl. V. 309 The Hatton and Prince Henry vamplates are truncated cones. |