Cataphract Common

Cataphract has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

armor that protects the wearer's whole body

body armor body armour suit of armor suit of armour coat of mail cataphract

Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.

A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract (etymology 1, sense 1).

Adjective

Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.