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5 words match “CATAPHRACT”

CATAPHRACT n. 3 definitions
A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.
CATAPHRACTED a.
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
CATAPHRACTIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.
LYRIE n.
A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
SALMON n.
, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb. -- Salmon trou…