ring mail

Questions about ring mail

What does ring mail mean?

ring mail means "(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings".

What is another word for ring mail?

Close synonyms include chain mail, mail, chain armor, chain armour, ring armor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ring mail a common word?

ring mail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.