vambrace

A piece of armor used to protect the forearm.

The piece of armor which protects the forearm from the elbow-joint to the wrist, whether covering the outer part of the arm only and worn over the sleeve of mail (compare garde-bras and brassart), or inclosing the whole forearm in a cylinder of iron. See cut under rerebrace.

The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist. Not in common use in this sense, most scholars preferring the narrower definition, of armor for the lower arm.

cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm