单词 | iron-clothed |
释义 | iron-clothedadj. 1. Of a person or group of people: wearing armour made of iron; armour-clad. historical. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adjective] > clad in or protected by armour armedc1300 wrienc1330 steel-clada1400 armed at (also of) all piecesc1400 harnessedc1460 enarmedc1540 armoured1564 steeled1596 iron-clothed1728 armour-clad1768 hoplomachic1832 well-armoured1852 brazen-mailed1870 pamphract1890 1728 R. Glover Poem on Sir I. Newton in H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. sig. b3 The iron-cloathed host..a gleaming horrour casts; Each flaming buckler like the mid-day sun. 1825 W. Scott Talisman ix, in Tales Crusaders IV. 192 The means of advance and retreat, which causeth their iron-clothed enemies to be worn out with their own ponderous weight! 1858 E. Atherstone Handwriting on Wall I. xix. 295 Cyrus, himself in a plain military attire, rode leisurely along the ranks of the iron-clothed squadrons of Persia. 1896 D. C. Beard Amer. Boy's Bk. Sport xxiv. 281 The horses these iron-clothed men rode were resplendent in gorgeous crazy-quilt coverings. 1999 J. Ortega in J. Bodeen With my Hands Full iv. 152 People cheer as the Aztec finishes off the iron clothed Spaniard. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > armour-plated armour-clad1768 mail-clad1777 iron-cased1855 ironclad1855 iron-plated1855 iron-sided1855 armoured1859 iron-clothed1859 mailed1860 armour-plated1862 cuirassed1864 belted1865 Harveyed1894 up-armoured1978 1859 Engineer 8 157/3 At from 600 to 800 yards, iron-clothed ships would be in comparative safety from the effects of an enemy's broadside. 1859 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 13 Sept. A steel-clothed ship would be more vulnerable than an iron-clothed vessel. 1862 Liverpool Mercury 25 July 3/6 The trial trip of the Black Prince, iron-clothed ship-of-war, took place on Tuesday. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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