Definitions
protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
Word origin
From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”).
Used in a sentence
“Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame.”
“The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas.”
“My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Protective plate”6 letters
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