hauberk

On tournament day, to the king’s great chagrin, Each one left his hauberk behind at the inn.

So Rabadash, by the time he encountered Edmund at the gate, had a hole in the back of his hauberk.

And then, in the neatest way you could wish, the tear in the back of his hauberk caught on a hook in the wall.

Gandalf took no armour; and Gimli needed no coat of rings, even if one had been found to match his stature, for there was no hauberk in the hoards of Edoras of better make than his short corslet forged beneath the Mountain in the North.

Merry’s sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee.