barbut

plural barbuts

1. alternativeAlternative form of barbute (“helmet”).

   Getting a shaft through the T-slit of the barbut helm was . . . You'd have to be dead lucky, as Sam would say.

   2006, S. M. Stirling, The Protector's War, Penguin, →ISBN, page 106

   3 more examples

   The barbut helmet and right gauntlet are contemporary, but do not belong; the left gauntlet is modern. Acquired from Schloss Churburg by W. R. Hearst in 1928, from whom bought by R. L. Scott in 1938.

   1973, The Scottish Art Review

   His garments and his helm and shield were black and red; he held his sword out in a half-extended arm, so that the point was scarce a meter from Rolf's heart. The warrior's face was hidden in a barbut helm, black ...

   2010, Fred Saberhagen, Empire of the East, Macmillan, →ISBN

   ... the most important part of the armour is the barbut helmet, one of the only two known examples from Ireland and the Jerpoint example appears to be the earliest.

   2010, Dr Breda Lynch, A Monastic Landscape: The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

2. obsoleteObsolete form of burbot (“type of fish”).