Crossword-Solution: BREASTPLATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Breastplate | n. | A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. |
| Breastplate | n. | A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. |
| Breastplate | n. | A strap that runs across a horse's breast. |
| Breastplate | n. | A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “BREASTPLATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| It was worn in war, once | 1 answer |
| the front part of a cuirass | 1 answer |
| horse riding equipment to keep the saddle or harness from sliding back | 1 answer |
| barde | 1 answer |
| Torso protector for Lancelot | 1 answer |
| Protector of Galahad's heart? | 1 answer |
| Protection up front | 1 answer |
| Knight's torso protector | 1 answer |
| Chicken part and what it sits on | 1 answer |
| Piece of armor | 4 answers |
| CORSLET, part of | 6 answers |
| thorax | 9 answers |
| ARMOUR ALTERNATIVE | 10 answers |
| ARMOUR, TOMMY MILIEU | 12 answers |
| BODY armor/armour | 16 answers |
| armour | 45 answers |
| judgment | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BREASTPLATE (5)
There was a steel head-piece, a cuirass, a gorget and greaves, with a pair of gauntlets and a sword hanging beneath; all, and especially the helmet and breastplate, so highly burnished as to glow with white radiance, and scatter an illumination everywhere about upon the floor.
But this had been already accomplished by the marshals of the field, who, guessing the cause of Ivanhoe’s swoon, had hastened to undo his armour, and found that the head of a lance had penetrated his breastplate, and inflicted a wound in his side.
These fishes, like the tortoise, the armadillo, the sea-hedgehog, and the Crustacea, are protected by a breastplate which is neither chalky nor stony, but real bone.
And the wind--you, ma'am--came in, and blew the Bible out of the man's hands, and the leaves went all flutter, flutter on the floor, and my mother picked it up and gave it back to him open, and there----” “Was your name in the Bible--the sixth stone in the high priest's breastplate.” “Oh!--a stone, was it?” said Diamond.
Breast drill, a portable drilling machine, provided with a breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work.
Quotes with BREASTPLATE (3)
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.
Every form is an image. Every image is a name. Every name is an attribute, every attribute a verb. Every verb forms the sentence to be read on Judgement Day, from the very Qur’aanul Qariim that is found within the breastplate of all that is ‘created’ in the form of humankind. Every object be it animated or non-animated is an image!!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (2003–2017).