jerkined

And after this present pair came one of the officers of the marshall's guard, in conversation with a workman clearly from the village, leather-jerkined, authoritative and voluble.

A River So Long 2010

It is further recorded of them, that being clad from head to heel in steel of proof, they did on many occasions lead their leather – jerkined soldiers to the death with invincible courage, and afterwards return home gracefully to their relations and friends.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

They were slim, narrow-hipped young fellows, tight-jerkined, loose-trousered, with a sort of divided apron of leather facing the leg and coming to the ankle; and all were of a most masterly Velasquez coloring and drawing.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Hundreds of the soldiers were crouching behind the parapets, companies of archers with great bows poised, arrows at their cheeks, scores of leather jerkined men with stands of javelins at their right hands, spearsmen and men with long, thonged slings.

The Metal Monster 2004

And after this present pair came one of the officers of the marshall's guard, in conversation with a workman clearly from the village, leather-jerkined, authoritative and voluble.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

All he could see before him was a line of jerkined backs and helmeted heads.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

The sandaled, jerkined man wielded only a pitchfork, whose wooden tines Conan battered aside with a swipe of his saber.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

The sandaled, jerkined man wielded only a pitchfork, whose wooden tines Conan battered aside with a swipe of his saber.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

"And capital coffee-pots," continued he to a leather-jerkined Missouri man, who had taken up one of the latter and was examining it.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

He sent out his long ships and his leathern-jerkined men to it.

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926