Meanings of armour-clad in English

They must know that they could not withstand a charge of armour-clad knights and men-at-arms.

The Spaniards were armour-clad, as usual, and heavily burdened.

He was armour-clad against germs, immune to all disease.

It rang the knell of the old wooden walls, and led to the introduction of armour-clad navies.

On board his flagship, the armour-clad "Ting-yuen" was a German artillery officer, Major von Hanneken.

They fought very well; and indeed, in close combat my Welshmen cannot, at present, hold their own against your armour-clad men.

From the back, he reminded me so much of the armour-clad rear of an Indian rhinoceros that I almost got the giggles again.

Strolling around my downtown Manhattan district on Sunday afternoon I came across several armour-clad aliens from the new George Lucas film, Star Wars: Episode II.

Hundreds of armour-clads were built that became obsolete, and were turned over to the shipbreaker, without ever having fired a shot in action.

Disregarding the Chinese cruisers, which were now badly cut up and firing harmlessly at long range, Ito concentrated his attack on the two armour-clads.

"I am armour-clad," said the stag-beetle.

He had with him the battleships "Nikolai I" and "Orel," the coast-defence armour-clads "Admiral Apraxin" and "Admiral Senyavin," and the cruisers "Izumrud" and "Svietlana."