cataphract

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.

   “Carmine streaks stained their limbs, their tunics and cataphracts; but little of the blood was theirs. They did not move like people with injuries.”

2. isim An outer covering of some fish resembling armour or plate.
3. sıfat Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.
4. isim A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract (etymology 1, sense 1).

   “Immediately / Was Samſon as a public ſervant brought, / In thir ſtate Livery clad; before him Pipes / and Timbrels, on each ſide went armed guards, / Both horſe and foot before him and behind / Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears.”

5. isim A galley with the upper tier of rowers shielded.