Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Armor for the protection of a horse in battle. See
bard .
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Examples
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When the day came that they began riding guardian on Selenay, there was no way to disguise what was essentially horse-armor, so the Companions would have to do without.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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When the day came that they began riding guardian on Selenay, there was no way to disguise what was essentially horse-armor, so the Companions would have to do without.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Barnum listened, and gazed in silence at the horse-armor, large enough for an elephant, and a pot called ` ` Guy's porridge-pot, '' which could have held seventy gallons, but when the old man produced the ribs of a mastodon which he declared had belonged to a huge dun cow, which had done much injury to many persons before being slain by the dauntless Guy, he drew a long breath, and feelingly congratulated the old porter on his ability to concentrate more lies than anyone had ever before heard in so small a compass.
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