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CaIiver - A hand gun, lighter than guard, hinged cheek pieces and
the musket, which was fired without extending to a broad neck guard
of
a gun rest.
overlapping and articulated
plates. Introduced about 1620.
Camail - A form of mail cape which
was suspended from the botrom of Carbine - A name given throughout
the helmet and was designed to the ages to many light types of hand
cover the chin, neck and shoulders. gun or rifie. It was originally intro-
duced in the 16th century as a form
Canon carB - One of the earliest of small wheeI-lock pn.
types of armoured fighting vehicle
which was used in the early 16th Case Hardening - A process insti-
century. It was hand propelled by tuted €rom the 15th century for
four men each side and was com- hardening amour, probably by
pletely protected by a turret and means of heat in contact witl? char-
coal.
deflecting surface over the top.
Caparison - Originally designed as Case of Rapiers - The rapier was
a form of protection for the horse the most commonly used weapon
lo meet attacks against the under- for duelling and they were originally
bel1y and legs. For battle purposes packed two in a case so that each
it was made of toughend leather contestant could use an identical
which was followed later by the blade, however, when duellinç
light linen covering of the same became more intense it was not un-
design gefierally emblazoned with common for each contestant to use
two blades one in either hand. The
the rider's mat of anns.
term for this fom of bout was ' to
fight with a case of rapiers '.
Cassis - The type of helmet worn
by the latcr Roman troops. Ils
design combined that of the attic
helrnet and the 5th century jockey
cap. Tt possessed a frontal band, a
prominent neck guard and hinged
cheek pieces and it possessed a small
attachment at the top to which a
plume could be iked for ceremonial
purposes.
Capeline - Sometimes called the
' lobster-tailed pot '. A helmet with
a hemi-spherical skull piece fitted
with a visor which comprised an
adjustable rod forming a nose Cassis
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