Definition of "mailclad" [mail•clad]

• Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour. (adjective)

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• "Spanish mailclad cavalry and from thoughts of the plots and counterplots that had been devised in the days before American occupancy."
• "In the medieval days mailclad robbers used to get (quite honestly and rightly according to the notions then current) large grants of land because they had ridden by the side of their feudal chiefs when they went on marauding forays."
• "He first taught his countrymen, and indeed Europe in general, that steady infantry can repel the assaults even of mailclad cavalry."