Hauberk

Definition: Hauberk

Hauberk

Noun

1. A long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor.

Date "hauberk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Hauberk

Synonym: byrnie (n). (additional references)

The hauberk is essentially a long shirt of chainmail armor. There are slits in the front and back below the waist, and sleeves are usually present.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Defense	Bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako; (dress).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hauberk

English words defined with "hauberk": habergeon ♦ Plastron. (references)

Etymologies containing "hauberk": Habergeon. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Space Station Hauberk (Sourcebox, Xxvc Game) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Hauberk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hauberk" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "hauberk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thurak (chain armor, chain armour, chain mail), parzmore e gjatë. (various references)

Arabic		‏درع (aegis, armature, armor, armor plate, armored, armour, armour plate, armoured, corset, cuirass, mail, shield). (various references)

Bulgarian		ризница (cuirass, mail, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, sacristy). (various references)

French		haubert. (various references)

Greek		μακρά πανόπλοια. (various references)

Hungarian		páncéling (coat of mail, corselet, corslet, mail, shirt of mail). (various references)

Italian		usbergo (habergeon). (various references)

Pig Latin		auberkhay

Portuguese		chapeleiro (hat maker, hatter). (various references)

Romanian		zale (mail), platoşã (Armor, armour, breastplate, mail). (various references)

Russian		кольчуга (chain armour, chain mail, coat of mail, habergeon, mail, ring-mail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oklopna košulja. (various references)

Spanish		cota de malla (coat of mail, mail). (various references)

Swedish		brynja (cellular shirt). (various references)

Turkish		zırh yelek. (various references)

Ukranian		кольчуга (byrnie, mail). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hauberk": hauberks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hauberk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haber, Habere, habur, Haobam, hauer, Hauger, Heibeck, Heuber, Heuberg, Kauber. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-k-r-u"
	-2 letters: baker, brake, break, burke, kebar, rehab.
	-3 letters: bake, bare, bark, beak, bear, beau, brae, buhr, bura, habu, hake, hare, hark, hear, herb, kbar, kerb, rake, rhea, rube, urea.
	-4 letters: arb, are, ark, auk, bah, bar, bra, bur, ear, eau, era, hae, her, hub, hue, kab, kae, kea, kue, rah, reb, rub, rue, uke, urb.
	-5 letters: ab, ae, ah, ar, ba, be, eh, er, ha, he, ka, re, uh.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-k-r-u"
	+1 letter: hauberks.
	+2 letters: kurbashed, kurbashes.
	+3 letters: backrushes, housebreak.
	+4 letters: bushwhacker, housebreaks.
	+5 letters: breakthrough, bushwhackers, housebreaker, swashbuckler.
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