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HELMET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("helmet" is a kind of...):
headdress; headgear (clothing for the head)
Meronyms (parts of "helmet"):
beaver (a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helmet"):
batting helmet (a helmet worn by the batter in baseball)
crash helmet (a padded helmet worn by people riding bicycles or motorcycles; protects the head in case of accidents)
football helmet (a padded helmet with a face mask to protect the head of football players)
hard hat; safety hat; tin hat (a lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers)
headpiece (a protective helmet for the head)
space helmet (a helmet worn by astronauts while in outer space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Armor plate that protects the head
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("helmet" is a kind of...):
armor plate; armor plating; armour plate; plate armor; plate armour (specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire)
Meronyms (parts of "helmet"):
visor; vizor (a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helmet"):
armet (a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard)
basinet (a medieval steel helmet)
casque ((15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor)
heaume (a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders)
cabasset; morion (a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century)
pickelhaube (a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers)
salade; sallet (a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision)
Holonyms ("helmet" is a part of...):
body armor; body armour; cataphract; coat of mail; suit of armor; suit of armour (armor that protects the wearer's whole body)
Context examples:
His hard-set face had softened, and the thick crop of crisp brown curls which had been hidden by his helmet grew low upon his massive neck.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Here's a Romsey man for you!” cried a young bowman with a sprig of evergreen set in his helmet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With white armor, blazoned shield, and plume of ostrich-feathers from his helmet, he carried himself in so jaunty and joyous a fashion, with tossing pennon and curveting charger, that a shout of applause ran the full circle of the arena.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here and there tossed the white plume of the English helmet, rising and falling like the foam upon a wave, with the fierce gleam and sparkle ever circling round it until at last it had sunk from view, and another brave man had turned from war to peace.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The other, who was evidently his squire and attendant, was unarmed save for the helmet upon his head, but bore in his right hand a very long and heavy oaken spear which belonged to his master.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The one to whom Felton found himself opposed was a tall stripling with a stag's head upon his shield, while Sir Nigel's man was broad and squat with plain steel harness, and a pink and white torse bound round his helmet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The German, though he reeled for an instant before the thrust of the Englishman, struck his opponent so fairly upon the vizor that the laces burst, the plumed helmet flew to pieces, and Sir Nigel galloped on down the lists with his bald head shimmering in the sunshine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Nigel's shield was broken, his crest shorn, his armor cut and smashed, and the vizor torn from his helmet; yet he sprang hither and thither with light foot and ready hand, engaging two Bretons and a Spaniard at the same instant—thrusting, stooping, dashing in, springing out—while Alleyne still fought by his side, stemming with a handful of men the fierce tide which surged up against them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the final bout, however, Sir Nigel struck his opponent with so true an aim that the point of the lance caught between the bars of his vizor and tore the front of his helmet out, while the German, aiming somewhat low, and half stunned by the shock, had the misfortune to strike his adversary upon the thigh, a breach of the rules of the tilting-yard, by which he not only sacrificed his chances of success, but would also have forfeited his horse and his armor, had the English knight chosen to claim them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
