neck guard

Noun

neck guard (plural neck guards)

1. A piece of armor or protective equipment which protects the neck.
   • […] and even though she did eventually agree, she had one rule: I had to wear a neck guard or a neck roll [to play football].2019, Lisa Kelly, Triumphs From Notre Dame: Echoes of Her Loyal Sons and Daughters, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 200
   • […] padded shorts—sometimes known as Breezers—a “jock” athletic protector, shin guards, and sometimes a neck guard.2020, DK, The Sports Book: The Sports*The Rules*The Tactics*The Techniques, Penguin
   1. A part of a helmet (of mail, plate, etc) which extends down to protect the neck.
      • They have embossed eyebrow features on the front of the bowl and two ribs on the neck guards. The Stara Gradiška helmet was formed from sixteen separate parts altogether, including bowl, neck guard, cheek pieces, reinforcing strips and ...2014, Hilary & John Travis, Roman Helmets, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN
   2. A ridge or an additional plate on a shoulder piece which projects upward to protect the neck: see passguard.
      • The pauldrons, or shoulder defences, show the slight upright neck guards, erroneously called pasguards. The rerebras and vambras protecting the upper and fore arms have faint spiral ridges on them […]1898, The Archaeological Journal, page 120
      • Round the neck is the mail gorget, and under the tabard appear the upright neck guards of the pauldrons,1902, William Ryland Dent Adkins, R. M. Serjeantson, Louis Francis Salzman, William Page, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton