| 单词 | jack of mail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjack of mail 2. A short, padded, quilted jacket or tunic, with or without sleeves and usually made of (layers of) leather or canvas stuffed with linen, wool, etc.; often worn as a protective garment, esp. by foot soldiers. Also (more fully jack of plate, jack of mail): a similar tunic or doublet containing a layer of mail or small plates of iron, worn as an alternative to mail or plate armour. See also black jack n.1 Now historical and in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > coat of mail or corselet ring netOE burnec1050 briniec1175 hauberk1297 coatc1300 bryn1330 habergeon1377 jackc1380 doublet of defence (or fence)1418 petticoatc1425 gesteron1469 byrnie1488 coat of fence1490 corset1490 corse1507 sark of mail1515 plate-coat1521 shirt of mail1522 mail-coat1535 corslet1563 costlet1578 pewter coat1584 cataphract1591 pyne doublet1600 sponge1600 coat-armour1603 brace1609 coat of arms1613 frock of mail1671 mail-shirt1816 mail-sark1838 society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > plate-coat or -jacket coatc1300 acton1328 jackc1380 haquetona1400 jazeranta1400 coat of fence1490 halkrig1516 plate-coat1521 coat-armour1603 coat of arms1613 plate-jackc1720 jacket1916 flak jacket1956 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3689 Þorȝ-out ys scheld & is habreioun, Plates, & iakke & ioupoun, þorȝ-out al it ȝot. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 256 Iakke of defence [?a1475 Winch. iak of fence], garment, baltheus. 1449 J. Paston Petition in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 52 A thowsand persones..arrayd in maner of werre with curesse, brigaunderes, jakkes, salettes, gleyfes, bowes, etc. 1481 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1481/4/5 That thai ger make thare jakkis syde to the knee, thai that wantis leg harnes. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxxvii. 573 The kynge had on a iacke couered with blacke veluet, whiche sore chafed hym. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xix. 129 Quhar for i exort ȝou that ȝe change ȝour sperutual habitis..in steil iakkis and in cotis of mailȝe to deffend ȝour bodeis. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 48 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The leather quilted Iacke in iourneying and in camping, for that it is fittest to be under his shirt of Male. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 94 They had brought with them good Iackes of Male. 1694 London Gaz. No. 3014. 2/2 Persons..arm'd with Blunderbuss's, Pistols,..Jackcaps, Leather Doublets and Jacks. 1719 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Turks III. Dict. 150 Some of them wear Jacks of Mail. 1786 F. Grose Treat. Anc. Armour 13 The names of the chief pieces, particularly appropriated to the defence of the breast and body, were..the jack, the vambasium, [etc.]. 1821 Archaeologia 19 137 The Jack seems to have been the usual habit of the archers before the adoption of what was more strictly the Brigandine. 1889 B. H. Dixon Border or Riding Clans 78 In 1540, James V ordered..that those of a smaller income in the Lowlands have a jack of plate. 1962 P. M. Kendall Yorkist Age 489 Men wearing jacks were so infrequently killed that Louis XI decided to equip his ‘francs archers’ with them. 2016 V. Milán Dinosaur Knights xii. 204 From her stained leather jack he guessed she'd carried a pike in the third or fourth rank. < as lemmas |
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