rainguard

English

Alternative forms

  • rain guard

Noun

rainguard (plural rainguards)

  1. A thing which protects (something) from rain.
    • 1911, M. L. Bowman, Corn: Growing, Judging, Breeding, Feeding, Marketing, page 52:
      ... rainguard, which, contrary to common opinion, instead of catching the rainfall and collecting it inside the leaf sheath, transfers it to the opposite side of the stalk and allows it to drip on the rainguard and ligule below.
    • 1976, Agriculture Handbook, page 16:
      ... rainguard prevents water from reaching the sap bucket.
  2. In particular, a sword's chappe, when interpreted as being to protect against rain.
    • 2020 June 25, Neil Grant, The Medieval Longsword, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 16, 67:
      [...] swords might be fitted with small circular 'rainguards' of leather or (less frequently) sheet metal, folded in half over the cross of the sword. The conventional explanation is that these covered the scabbard mouth, protecting the sword [...] […] [This] sword has a rainguard.
    • 2011 March 4, Mike Loades, Swords and Swordsmen, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
      Langets are small tongues of metal that sit outside the scabbard, so acting in a similar manner to a rainguard. Moreover, if the fit is right, they can help to snap the sword securely into the scabbard.
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