Soldiers, notwithstanding their defensive armour, are often more annoyed by the round stones from the sling than by all the arrows of the enemy.

Few would have had helmets or defensive armour.

It was part of the defensive armour of the Byzantine heavy cavalry.

Slugs have ridden their contempt for defensive armour as much to death as the turtles their pursuit of it.

Armour, although all used for the sole intent to ward off attackers, can be split into defensive and offensive armour.

Offensive armour is often used in conjunction with defensive armour and in some cases makes an animal almost unassailable.

Amphibians have soft bodies and thin skins, lack claws, defensive armour or spines and seem relatively helpless.

A corslet is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a piece of defensive armour covering the body."

It seemed that she hid only from him behind the defensive armour he called her hedgehog prickles; to others she was open and friendly.

This served as a defensive armour.