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To me the placement of chain-armour under chain strongly implies the meaning `armour made of parts linked together as in a chain'; but that is certainly not the case, as the definition at once makes clear.
In the OUP system, chain-armour, chain bridge, chain drive, chain-gang, chain-gear, chain-letter, chain-link, chain-mail, chain reaction, chain-saw, chain-smoker, chain-stitch, chain store, chain-wale , and chain-wheel are all entered as subentries under chain.
In other words, chains are characterized by sequential, linear linking, in which the parts or interlocked end to end, clearly not the case in chain-armour or chain-link (for instance).
The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.