English Dictionary

mail

IPA（発音記号）

/meɪl/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 廃用 稀用

(uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together. / (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

日本語の意味

鎖帷子（チェーンメイル）：金属の輪や板が連結して作られる防具。 / 船舶で、綴じられた環が互いに連結され、ロープの余分な麻や白いコードを擦り落とすために用いられる装置。

The knight's mail clinked softly as he crossed the courtyard.

騎士の鎖帷子は中庭を横切るときにかすかに金属音を立てた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.

That's funny looking mail, Sire, said Eustace. Aye, lad, said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]

意味（2）

(nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

意味（3）

Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.

意味（4）

(obsolete, rare) A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.

[T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake.

mails （ plural ）