shinplate

plural shinplates

1. uncommonAn item of plate armour covering the shin; a greave.

   This helmet is part of a set of armour, also comprising collar, pair of pauldrons, vambraces (armplate) and greaves (shinplate). The pieces come as field armour fitted with extra pieces for lighter field use.

   2003, David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

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   The dwarven priest followed, keeping his distance, and trying to time his crunching steps in steel plate armor and […] Azenairk looked up, his shinplate just having kicked into a rock on the side of the trail, the two men drawing[…]

   2010 05, Jason R. Jones, The Exodus: Of Spiders and Falcons, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 139

   His armored feet dug chunks out of the wall as he scrambled toward the very top. Finally, when gravity would let him rise no more, [... he] slid the hidden knife out of its sheath in his shinplate. He wrenched himself upward, over the lip,[…]

   2018 August 7, Paul Tassi, Herokiller: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN