Definitions for vambrace

vambrace vam·brace

Spelling: [vam-breys]
IPA: /ˈvæm breɪs/

Vambrace is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in vambrace (aabcemrv).

Definitions for vambrace

noun

  1. a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.
  2. plate armor for the arm, usually including upper and lower cannons and a couter.

Origin of vambrace

1300-50; Middle English va(u)mbras Anglo-French (a)vantbras, equivalent to avant- fore- (see avaunt) + bras arm (see brace)

Examples for vambrace

The vambrace is worn under the sleeve of the hauberk, and not, as in the preceding example, over the mail.

The vambrace is generally rigid, either a solid tube or hinged on the outside and fastened on the inside by straps or hooks.

The fore-arm is covered with the plates of a vambrace which appears from under the hawberk sleeve.

Word Value for vambrace
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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