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  2. List of medieval armour components - Wikipedia

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    Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and chest. Gardbrace: Extra plate that covers the front of the shoulder and the armpit, worn over top of a pauldron.

  3. List of Scottish clans - Wikipedia

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    Crest: A sinister arm from the shoulder bendways, attired in the close sleeve of the proper tartan of Clan Aonghais, cuff flashes yellow with three buttons Or, grasping a bow vert, stringed gules. [203] Motto: Ghift Dhe agus an righ [Scottish Gaelic, 'By the grace of God and king'] [203] Plant badge: holly [37] Chief: none, armigerous clan

  4. Tablet (pharmacy) - Wikipedia

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    Modern tablet presses reach output volumes of up to 1,700,000 tablets per hour. These huge volumes require frequent in-process quality control for the tablet weight, thickness and hardness. Due to efforts to reduce rejects rates and machine down-time, automated tablet testing devices are used on-line with the tablet press or off-line in the IPC ...

  5. Stock (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    The anatomy of a gunstock on a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle with Fajen thumbhole silhouette stock. 1) butt, 2) forend, 3) comb, 4) heel, 5) toe, 6) grip, 7) thumbhole A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing ...

  6. United States Army branch insignia - Wikipedia

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    The first use of Army branch insignia was just prior to the American Civil War in 1859 for use on the black felt hat. A system of branch colors, indicated by piping on uniforms of foot soldiers and lace for mounted troops, was first authorized in the 1851 uniform regulations, with Prussian blue denoting infantry, scarlet for artillery, orange for dragoons, green for mounted rifles, and black ...

  7. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The letter m has three, the left, middle, and right stems. The central stroke of an s is known as the spine . [ 6 ] When the stroke is part of a lowercase [ 4 ] and rises above the height of an x (the x height ), it is known as an ascender . [ 7 ]

  8. Sleeve - Wikipedia

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    Full, gathered sleeve where the top part of the sleeve is plain and the cuff balloons out halfway between wrist and elbow Long sleeve: Sleeve covering the entire arm from shoulder to wrist Pagoda sleeve: A wide, bell-shaped sleeve popular in the 1860s, worn over an engageante or false undersleeve Paned sleeve

  9. Shoulder belt (military) - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon grenadiers featuring fully laden shoulder belts. In military uniforms, a shoulder belt is a wide belt worn usually over the shoulder and across the body. With nearly all line infantry, skirmishers, light infantry, grenadiers and guard regiments, two shoulder belts were worn - one carrying the cartridge box, and another for the bayonet, a sword ("sword belt" was also the term in this ...