Meaning of neck guard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of armor or protective equipment which protects the neck.
2. A part of a helmet (of mail, plate, etc) which extends down to protect the neck.
3. A ridge or an additional plate on a shoulder piece which projects upward to protect the neck: see passguard.

Examples

“[…] and even though she did eventually agree, she had one rule: I had to wear a neck guard or a neck roll [to play football].”

“[…] padded shorts—sometimes known as Breezers—a “jock” athletic protector, shin guards, and sometimes a neck guard.”

“They have embossed eyebrow features on the front of the bowl and two ribs on the neck guards. The Stara Gradiška helmet was formed from sixteen separate parts altogether, including bowl, neck guard, cheek pieces, reinforcing strips and ...”

“The pauldrons, or shoulder defences, show the slight upright neck guards, erroneously called pasguards. The rerebras and vambras protecting the upper and fore arms have faint spiral ridges on them […]”

“Round the neck is the mail gorget, and under the tabard appear the upright neck guards of the pauldrons,”

“Lady Joan stood at the top of the ladder in full upper armor[:] a breastplate with a pauldrons with high neck guards. Chainmail covered both arms with rerebrace, couter, and vambrace. A fencing glove was on her right hand and a gauntlet ...”

“The pauldrons are larger and the upstanding neck guards are pronounced.”

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