Unarmored, Unarmoured

a. [UN-¹ 9.]

  1.  Of vessels: Not armor-clad.

1868.  Draper, Amer. Civ. War, II. VIII. xlv. 201. It [the National Government] constructed, with great energy, a fleet of river-ships, armored and unarmored, for duty in the West.

1869.  Sir E. Reed, Our Iron-Clad Ships, iv. 73. When we pass from unarmoured to armoured ships, the contrast is still more striking.

1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 61/1. In the unarmoured iron ships recently built for the navy tie-plates have been entirely dispensed with.

  2.  Of persons: Not protected by armor.

1873.  Morris, Love Is Enough, 18. Barehanded, unarmoured, he handled the spear-shaft.

1892.  Tennyson, Foresters, IV. And walkest [thou] here Unarmour’d? all these walks are Robin Hood’s And sometimes perilous.