MANTLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mantlet mean? 

• MANTLET (noun)
  The noun MANTLET has 1 sense:

1. portable bulletproof shelter

  Familiarity information: MANTLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Portable bulletproof shelter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mantelet; mantlet

Hypernyms ("mantlet" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

 Context examples 

I well remember that, on occasion of an outfall, a Genoan raised his arm over his mantlet, and shook it at us, a hundred paces from our line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“They will learn wisdom. They are bringing forward shield and mantlet. We shall have some pebbles about our ears ere long.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Long were the faces of the Englishmen and broad the laugh of the crossbowmen as the heavy mantlet was carried towards them, for there in the centre was the thick Brabant bolt driven deeply into the wood, while there was neither sign nor trace of the cloth-yard shaft.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Learn also, I pray you, to shoot with a dropping shaft; for though a bowman may at times be called upon to shoot straight and fast, yet it is more often that he has to do with a town-guard behind a wall, or an arbalestier with his mantlet raised when you cannot hope to do him scathe unless your shaft fall straight upon him from the clouds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)