Shields

In the days of the knights, they wore shields to protect themselves from sword-fight wounds.

The army use civilians as human shields.

All the police officers were equipped with shields to defend themselves against the rioters.

"O son of Tydeus, bravest of the race, / why could not I have perished, too, that day / beneath thine arm, and breathed this soul away / far on the plains of Troy, where Hector brave / lay, pierced by fierce AEacide, where lay / giant Sarpedon, and swift Simois' wave / rolls heroes, helms and shields, whelmed in one watery grave?"

Penthesilea's Amazonian train / with moony shields. Bare-breasted, in the van, / girt with a golden zone, the maiden fights with man.

Those too, whom late we scattered through the town, / tricked in the darkness, reappear once more. / At once the falsehood of our guise is known, / the shields, the lying arms, the speech of different tone.

Trilobites fossils are arthropods, or joint-footed animals, with a segmented body of hinged plates and shields. They could curl up into a ball for protection, sometimes fossilizing as a "rolled" trilobite.

It is a coward who shields his eyes and shrinks away from the light of love and truth. If it could render us blind, what use would our eyes be?

It’s early on a Saturday afternoon and nearly 400 weekend warriors have gathered to do battle on the grounds of a state park just outside Nashville, Tennessee. But they do not carry wooden or steel copies of medieval weapons. They take the field armed with arrows, swords and shields made from foam.

Jeremy Filko is using his 3-D printer to create plastic mask shields for doctors, nurses and other first responders.