pikeguard

English

Noun

pikeguard (plural pikeguards)

  1. A passegarde (neck guard).
    • 1900, Robert Coltman Clephan, The Defensive Armour and the Weapons and Engines of War of Mediæval Times: And of the "Renaissance":
      [page 65:] The pikeguard has ceased, sollerets are the shape of the foot, and he wears a morion. The morion and cabasset were late sixteenth and seventeenth century  […]
      [page 118:] The pauldrons, which are uneven in size, are surmounted by pikeguards; the left pauldron is the larger. These pieces consist of front and back plates,  […]
    • 1913, Herbert Walter Macklin, The Brasses of England, page 218:
      The pauldrons are single, and are fitted with high pikeguards to protect the neck from sidelong blows, the left side being the more carefully guarded.
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