单词 | paviser |
释义 | pavisern. Now historical. A man equipped with or bearing a pavis. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > man wearing armour > [noun] > man armed with shield targeter1382 paviserc1425 pavisec1500 target man1555 targeteera1593 targeman?17.. hypaspista1827 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 8127 (MED) First þei sette her arblasteris And her gonners & her best archeris, with pauiseris for to goon aforn. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 2831 His pelours and pauysers passede alle nombyre. c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 540 (MED) Sir William Wareyne, knyghte, with oþir iiij xx and xv knyghtes, ccc iiij xx xiiij pavisers and hobelers on horsbakke, and xvj archers on foote. c1550 (?a1400) in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 782) (1790) 6 (MED) Loreynars: Knights, 1; Esquieres, 2; Panecers [perh. read Pauecers], 2. 1786 F. Grose Treat. Anc. Armour 27 In the list of the army that accompanied K. Edward III. to Calais, we find many pavisors. 1826 W. C. Stafford Sir Everhard 188 These pavisers bore a large shield, somewhat resembling a boat with the stern cut off, which they raised as a bulwark before the archers when in battle. 1894 J. H. Wylie Henry IV III. lvii. 325 They came on in pairs, the paviser planting the door while the archer took aim. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Pavis A large shield covering the whole body..sometimes carried by a pavisor before a knight or archer. 2003 A. Baker Knight iii. 52 The shield could be held in position by a squire..called a pavisor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1425 |
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