A broad piece of armor made of rigid material and strapped to the arm or carried in the hand for protection against hurled or thrusted weapons, A steel sheet attached to an artillery piece to protect gunners from small-arms fire and shrapnel, A pad worn, as at the armpits, to protect a garment from perspiration, intransitive verb_ To act or serve as a shield or safeguard, To cover up; conceal, transitive verb_ To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury, To ward off; to keep off or out

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