Word.ws English Dictionary

mailclad

mailclad adjective: protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.

Adjective

mailclad (not comparable)

  1. Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
    • This renegade chief, or apostate, betrayed the Christian army into ground where the mailclad knights of Europe fainted for want of water, and were overwhelmed by the arrows of the lightmounted infidels1828–1831, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] ; Dublin: John Cumming

Origin of mailclad

From mail + clad.

Questions about mailclad

What does mailclad mean?
Mailclad means protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
What part of speech is mailclad?
Mailclad is an adjective.

Words near mailclad in the dictionary

  1. mailcars
  2. mailcart
  3. mailcarts
  4. mailcatcher
  5. mailcatchers
  6. mailclad
  7. mailcoach
  8. mailcoaches
  9. mailcoat
  10. mailcoats
  11. maildrop

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mailclad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mailclad.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mailclad. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.