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.

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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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