The sword of him that layeth at them cannot hold the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
"I can tell thee that mine are blunt for want of use," retorted a comrade, hammering busily at a broken link in his habergeon.
habergeon, ha-bėr′je-un, n. a piece of armour to defend the neck and breast.
Every free layman having ten marks in chattels shall have a habergeon, iron cap, and lance.
He wore a gipon of fustian, all stained by his habergeon; for he had only just arrived home from a long voyage.