Baldric
[bɒ:ldrik]
Definition
(noun.) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
Checker: Willa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shoulder belt.
Editor: Percival
Examples
- They swarmed close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery, for I knew his horn and baldric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So would not I, said Wamba--but for the horn that hangs at your baldric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Knight undid the clasp of the baldric, and indulged his fellow-traveller, who immediately hung the bugle round his own neck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Sidney