We had intended to sample a Brunswick cocktail, but to tell you the truth I was anxious for an excuse to go and see Hawberk instead.
If Hawberk knew how I loathe that word "lunatic," he would never use it in my presence.
I saw old Hawberk moving about in his shop, and imagined I heard Constance's voice in the parlour; but I avoided them both and hurried up the trembling stairways to Mr. Wilde's apartment.
Old Hawberk sat riveting the worn greaves of some ancient suit of armour, and the ting!
Hawberk explained, that in addition to the treasures of armour in the Metropolitan Museum of which he had been appointed armourer, he also had charge of several collections belonging to rich amateurs.
Hawberk looked at me and slowly smoothed his leathern apron.
His last defence is a fine hawberk "full strong of plate" showing that "hawberk" sometimes served as a word for the body plates.
Over the hawberk is a garment, perhaps of leather with a dagged skirt-edge, and over this again is a sleeveless gambeson or pourpoint of leather or quilted work, studded and enriched.
Its weight is shown in the scene where William's men carry arms to the ships, each hawberk being borne between two men upon a pole thrust through the sleeves.
Chaucer's Sir Thopas must always be cited for the defences of this age, the hero wearing the quilted haketon next his shirt, and over that the habergeon, a lesser hawberk of chain mail.
A knight is reckoned fully armed if he have helmet, hawberk and shield; his weapons are sword and lance, although he sometimes carries axe or mace and, more rarely, a bow.
There are indications that the hawberk was sometimes reinforced at the breast probably by a small oblong plate fastened underneath.
Under the hawberkflows out to the heels the skirt of a long gown slit in front.
But the sleeve of the hawberk goes to the wrist, and the kite shield grows less, Stephen's shield being 30 in.
The knight's hawberk is worn over a gambeson of linen, quilted linen or cotton, which lesser men wear with a steel cap for all defence.
The fore-arm is covered with the plates of a vambrace which appears from under the hawberk sleeve.
He has a hawberk of mail whose front skirt ends in a point between the knees, the loose sleeves between wrist and elbow.
He chanced to put on his hawberk with the wrong side before, and seeing some of his men disconcerted, fancying this a token of ill, he told them that it boded that his dukedom should be turned to a kingdom.
The army was in three troops, each drawn up in the form of a wedge, the archers forming the point; and the reserve of horse was committed to Bishop Odo, who rode up and down among the men, a hawberk over his rochet and a club in his hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hawberk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
