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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cataphract has 1 sense
- cataphract(n = noun.artifact) body armor, body armour, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour - armor that protects the wearer's whole body; Array has parts: armet, basinet, brassard, aegis, breastplate, egis, cannon, casque, cubitiere, cuisse, epauliere, fauld, gantlet, gauntlet, metal glove, gorget, greave, jambeau, helmet, knee piece, nosepiece, palette, pallette, rerebrace, upper cannon, roundel, skirt of tasses, sabaton, solleret, tasse, tasset, tuille, lower cannon, vambrace, gusset, voider
is a kind of armor, armour
has particulars: bulletproof vest, chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail, corselet, corslet, cuirass
CIDE DICTIONARY
cataphract, n. [L. cataphractes, Gr. , fr. covered, fr. to cover; kata` down, wholly + fra`ssein to inclose.].
- Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. [1913 Webster]
- A horseman covered with a cataphract. [1913 Webster]"Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears." [1913 Webster]
- The armor or plate covering some fishes. [1913 Webster]