Cataphract
- n. The armor or plate covering some fishes.
- n. Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
- n. A horseman covered with a cataphract.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.