targe

American  

[tahrj] / tɑrdʒ /

noun

Archaic.

1. a small, round shield; a target or buckler.

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targe British  

/ tɑːdʒ /

noun

1. an archaic word for shield

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Etymology

Origin of targe

before 1000; Middle English < Old French < Old Norse targa round shield; cognate with Old High German zarga rim, ring; replacing Old English targe, targa < Old Norse

Example Sentences

He ran as much as he has all season on a night when he had to, and he was as on targe with his passes, which was needed on so many third- and fourth-down plays.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2019

His targe and horse-trapping displayed a profusion of silver crosses and devices, and he looked a stately and martial warrior, curvetting at the head of his troop of well-appointed lancers.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

Say rather, from marge to blue marge The whole sky grew his targe With the sun's self for visible boss, While an Arm ran across Which the earth heaved beneath like a breast!

From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)

Like many Thracian heroes Rhesus has a dash of the Sun-god in him, the burning targe, the white horses and the splendour.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

"It was steel and targe from the onset."

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil