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2. Caligae - Wikipedia

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   Caligae (sg.: caliga) are heavy-duty, thick-soled openwork boots, with hobnailed soles. They were worn by the lower ranks of Roman cavalrymen and foot-soldiers, and possibly by some centurions. [ 1 ] A durable association of caligae with the common soldiery is evident in the latter's description as caligati ("booted ones").

3. Greave - Wikipedia

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   The earliest form consisted of three plates of metal covering the shin. [8] By the Kamakura period (1186–1333), greaves became a standard part of Japanese armor. Around the Muromachi period (1334–1572), these took on the form of a splint mounted on a piece of fabric with mail in between the metal splint and fabric, not unlike European greaves.

4. Shin guard - Wikipedia

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   A shin guard or shin pad is a piece of equipment worn on the front of an athlete's shin to protect it from injury. These are commonly used in sports including association football , baseball , ice hockey , field hockey , lacrosse , cricket and mountain bike trials .

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   But there's one constant among the deals our AOL readers can't stop shopping: Walmart. And lucky for you, even though Cyber Monday is technically over, Walmart's kept some of the savings alive.

6. Combat boot - Wikipedia

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   The KS14 Schwer ('heavy'), made by the Italian company AKU, is a heavy duty combat boot specially designed for the Swiss Army but also sold to civilians, with metal inserts to protect the foot. Every soldier receives, at the beginning of boot camp, two pairs of KS90 and one pair of KS14.

7. Brogan (shoes) - Wikipedia

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   Pair of hobnailed boots. These replaced the 1904 Russet Service Shoe, a brogan of a construction unsuitable to trench warfare or field duty in general. [6] An improved version of the trench boot, the 1918 trench boot, was nicknamed the "little tanks" because of their strong construction, and "Pershing boots" after American general John J. Pershing.