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lobster-tailed pots

lobster-tailed pots is the plural of lobster-tailed pot.

Meaning of lobster-tailed pot

Noun

lobster-tailed pot (plural lobster-tailed pots)

  1. A European combat helmet, worn especially from the 1600s into the 1700s, consisting of a rounded skull-piece, often cheek guards and a nasal or face-guard, and a laminated defence (or single plate ridged to imitate lames) to protect the back of the neck that resembled a lobster's tail.
    • They wore a back-and-front breastplate over a buff leather coat, which itself gave some protection against sword cuts, and normally a "lobster-tailed pot" helmet with a movable three-barred visor, and a bridle gauntlet on the left hand.1987, New Model Army
    Synonyms:
    lobster pot, zischägge, harquebusier's pot, horseman's pot

Questions about lobster-tailed pots

What is lobster-tailed pots the plural of?
Lobster-tailed pots is the plural of lobster-tailed pot.

Words near lobster-tailed pots in the dictionary

  1. lobster woman
  2. lobster women
  3. lobster-tail pot
  4. lobster-tail pots
  5. lobster-tailed pot
  6. lobster-tailed pots
  7. lobster-woman
  8. lobster-women
  9. lobsterback
  10. lobsterbacks
  11. lobsterboat

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