单词 | pot helmet |
释义 | > as lemmaspot helmet pot helmet n. now historical a protective helmet of a kind worn by cavalrymen or other soldiers; = sense 9. ΚΠ 1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour I. 31 His helmet is of the pot kind, such as became more general under King John.] 1841 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Sept. 229 He brought out a strong pot-helmet of black iron. 1871 Scribner's Monthly Oct. 637/1 Sir—put spurs to his charger, rode at the trooper, and dealt him a downright blow on the pot-helmet with his sheathed weapon. 1994 Guardian 16 Nov. i. 11 (caption) Elin Jones, of Sotheby's, tries a Cromwellian harquebusier's lobster-tailed pot helmet, much in vogue in the 1640s. < as lemmas |
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