OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12313

shield

/ʃiːld/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chimal • escudo
Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
Knock go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame.
The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 12314

shield

/ʃiːld/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
blindar • proteger
To protect, to defend.
Shots rang out and a 15-year-old boy, shielding a woman from the line of fire, was killed.
Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays.
Phrases