A kind of helmet in use in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

In medieval armour, a light globular headpiece, either with or without a vizor, and without a crest, the lower part curving outwards behind.

Some kind of helmet or headpiece; generally worn by persons of inferior rank; perhaps originally by the servants of the men-at-arms.

A helmet of Italian origin introduced in the early 15th cent., consisting of a steel skull extending at the rear to form a narrow neck guard…

Chiefly Scottish. A helmet or other protective metal headpiece. Chiefly (and now only) in steel bonnet. Now historical.

A kind of brimmed helmet resembling a hat, without a beaver or visor, worn chiefly by foot soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(a) A very light casque, or steel cap, for the use of the infantry, especially pikemen. (b) A helmet with a visor, so fitted to the gorget or…

A massive helmet, reaching down to the shoulders, worn in the 12th and 13th centuries, sometimes over a smaller close-fitting one.

Apparently: = burgonet, n. Obsolete. rare.

‘A kind of close helmet’ (Nares): but perhaps only a figurative use. Obsolete.

A light and open helmet or casque.

A kind of small helmet.

‘A small open helmet of a light kind, without beaver or visor, having a projecting umbril, and flexible plates to cover the neck behind’ (Fairholt).

= knapscall, n.

A kind of helmet.

a large heavy helmet worn over the ordinary one in tilting, completely covering the head and face, with slits for breathing and vision.

A German spiked helmet of a type worn esp. before and during the earlier part of the First World War (1914–18). Also in extended use (by metonymy): a…

a helmet worn, or as worn, by British troops at the Battle of Waterloo.

A flat-topped cavalry helmet.

a basin in which puddings are made; (in extended use) a hat, helmet, etc., resembling this; (attributive, of a person's hair or hairstyle)…