On dashed the steed, I say, with fire bursting from eyes and nostrils, and the pike of his chaffron bent lance-like against the crusaders 'van.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

Protected from arrow and lance by a coat of steel, the long chaffron, or pike, which projected from its barbed frontal dropped with gore as it scoured along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

Hodgson, who discovered the animal, writes: "Colour throughout cinnamon red without black tip to the tail, but the chaffron and entire head and neck below hoary.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference