pauncher

pauncher (plural paunchers)

1. Alternative form of paunce (“abdomen armor”)
   • 1921, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Great Britain: Royal Historical Society:

     […] a bascinet and a steel cap with visors, breastplates, a pauncher, greaves, and vambraces and rearbraces. The owner's piety is suggested by an image of the Blessed Mary in alabaster and another of St. John the Baptist.

   • 2017, Peter Lorge, Warfare in China to 1600, Routledge, →ISBN:

     […] and lively renditions of this armor, with breast plaques, and lamellar shoulder guards, pauncher or midriff guard,  […]

• pawnchere, pancherde, pawncherde, panchere, pancere

From Old French panchiere, variant of panciere; equivalent to paunce +‎ -er. Compare German Panzer.

• IPA^(key): /pau̯nˈt͡ʃeːr(ə)/, /ˈpau̯nt͡ʃər(ə)/, /ˈpant͡ʃər(ə)/

pauncher (plural paunchers) (rare)

1. belt, girdle
2. paunce (piece of armour)

• “pauncere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.