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# breastplate

«breastplate» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of metal armour worn over the chest to protect a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (breastplates)

### meaning for a pupil

A breastplate is a piece of metal armour worn over the chest to protect a fighter in battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breastplate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

armour of a hero or a soldier in old stories, for example Heracles

### examples

- The knight polished his breastplate until it shone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breastplate/#x1)
- Protected by his breastplate and lion's skin, Heracles went after the monster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breastplate/#x2)
- The old troop-horse grumbled about his crupper and breastplate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breastplate/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.707/)
- [And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work of pure gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.820/)
- [And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.822/)
- [and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1055/)
- [And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1073/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breastplate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breastplate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.