armour plate

British  

noun

1. a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc

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Example Sentences

Both Héctor and Julio were wearing body armour, 14kg of Kevlar and armour plate.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

“I was lucky to be safe and capture the visual of one of the rockets hitting the armour plate overhead,” he tweeted Tuesday.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

Big black paisleys pieced together like a children's jumbo jigsaw into a faux armour plate?

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2014

Eager but ignorant hands were piling up heaps of miscellaneous goods—pictures, feather-beds, old armour, plate, mirrors, harness, carpets, and wearing apparel.

From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Tytler, Sarah

Also the Englishmen tooke manie wagons and sumpters laden with crossebowes, armour, plate, apparell, and the furniture of the French kings chapell.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Holinshed, Raphael