"boss" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Superficially it resembles a shield boss with three fixing holes but I thought that they were heavier and cast.
- I doubt if it is a shield boss having gold gilt.
- I saw the sun red in their eyes, the blistering light of day ablaze on shield boss and sword edge.
- The Briton went down with a piercing cry as Cato wrenched the blade free and knocked him flat with the shield boss.
- He dropped the staple at the right rim, but his forearm was through the loop behind the shield boss.
- Parma had a handle and a shield boss (umbo).
- His shield boss caught the flat light from the sea and made it gold.
- Finds included a shield boss and fragments of an urn or drinking cup.
- The shield bosses are taken, in the book, to represent 3 levels of hierarchy in the small army.
- They did not wear much in the way of body protection or helmets (early Frankish shield bosses were at first classified as helmets by early archaeologists).
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