Definition of "ring mail" [ring mail]

• A kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Every native in the neighborhood had gotten the word and come to watch-close-packed lines of amber-skinned beings in mostly drab clothes, held back by armed troopers in ring mail or jerkins."
• "He sweated in the underpadding of the ring mail coat which had been hastily altered to fit him."
• "He hoped some of that impression was due to the plumed and visored helmets and the plate armor rather than ring mail which they wore."