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ring mail

ring mail is the alternative form of ringmail.

Meaning of ringmail

Noun

ringmail (usually uncountable, plural ringmails)

  1. (usually) A type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation, assumed by the Victorians to have been used in the Middle Ages, but now generally thought not to have existed historically.
    Synonyms:
    ring armour, ring armor

Forms of ring mail

pluralring mails

Questions about ring mail

What is ring mail the alternative form of?
Ring mail is the alternative form of ringmail.

Words near ring mail in the dictionary

  1. ring lasers
  2. ring leader
  3. ring leaders
  4. ring light
  5. ring lights
  6. ring mail
  7. ring modulation
  8. ring modulations
  9. ring name
  10. ring names
  11. ring of authenticity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ring mail (page history and authors); ringmail (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.

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