(n) :
(Armor) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parryblows; (Armor) A shield resembling the Romanscutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term
"1598: I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through; my swordhacked like a hand-saw -- ecce signum! &mdash"
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(n) :
(Armor) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parryblows; (Armor) A shield resembling the Romanscutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term
"1598: I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through; my swordhacked like a hand-saw -- ecce signum! &mdash"