Word Meanings - PASSEGARDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

• Jointer
  One who, or that which, joints.
• Lancegaye
  A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
• Otherwhere
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.
• Projectile
  Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
• Shoulder
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
• OTHERGUISEOTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• Joint-fir
  A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.
• Lancelet
  A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
• Otherwhile
  Alt. of Otherwhiles
• Projection
  The act of throwing or shooting forward.
• Shouldered
  of Shoulder
• OTHERWHILEOTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
• Jointless
  Without a joint; rigid; stiff.
• Lancely
  Like a lance.
• Otherwhiles
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.
• Projectment
  Design; contrivance; projection.
• Shouldering
  of Shoulder
• RIDGEPIECERIDGEPLATE
  See Ridgepole.
• Armor-bearer
  One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger.

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