A thin piece of steel or iron used as armour for a part of the body, either as a separate piece or to overlap with others in composing a suit of…

A thin plate, esp. of metal; a thin piece of any substance, a lamina; spec. applied to the small overlapping steel plates used in old armour.

Any of the thin pieces of metal composing scale-armour; = scale, n.2 7a.

Any of the thin pieces of metal composing scale-armour (see scale-armour n. at compounds 2). Also collective singular. (In poetry used vaguely.)

Armour. According to Meyrick's (discredited) classification of the surface texture of soldiers' body-garments in medieval illustrations: each of…