different between armor vs shaffron

English

Alternative forms

• armour (British, Canadian, Australian)

Etymology

From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin arm?t?ra. Doublet of armure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /????.m?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.m?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)

Noun

armor (countable and uncountable, plural armors) (chiefly American spelling)

1. (uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.

   Hyponyms: body armor, mail, chain mail, plate, suit of armor

2. (uncountable) A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.

   Synonyms: carapace, chitin, horn

3. (uncountable) Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.

   Synonym: armor plate

4. (countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
5. (military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.

   Synonyms: cavalry, mechanized

6. (hydrology, uncountable) The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.

Synonyms

• (body armour): body armour, body armor, mail, chain mail, plate, suit of armour, suit of armor
• (animal): horn, carapace, chitin
• (metal plate): armour plate, armor plate
• (military): mechanized, cavalry

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Translations

Verb

armor (third-person singular simple present armors, present participle armoring, simple past and past participle armored)

1. (transitive) To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
2. (transitive) To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

Translations

Anagrams

• Marro, Morar, Morra, maror, morra

Albanian

Noun

armor

1. armour (body protection)

Latin

Verb

armor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of arm?

Middle English

Noun

armor

1. Alternative form of armure

English

Noun

shaffron (plural shaffrons)

1. Alternative form of chamfron (protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears).
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29:

     The Chanfron, Chamfrein, or Shaffron took it's denomination from that part of the horse's head it covered, and was a kind of mask of iron, copper, or brass, and sometimes of jacked leather, enclosing the face and ears, some of these chanfrons seem to have been contrived as to hinder a horse from seeing right before him, perhaps to prevent his being intimidated by any object against which he might be directed, so as to cause him to start aside, or lessen the celerity of his charge.