Glove-Shield Small 320×144 Medium 640×289 Large 1024×462 Download Tiff Original 2400×1083 | (802.9 KB) Description "Glove-shield, 15th century. A contrivance adopted in the sixteenth century for arming the left hand for parrying thrusts and blows." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords 15th century, armor, glove shield, glove-shield, parrying, thurst Galleries Armor Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
