Cataphract

Cataphract - Other Definitions

• (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
  
  
• (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract.
  
  
• (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes.
  
  
• (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.