Heavy infantry refers to heavily armed and armoured ground troops, as opposed to medium or light infantry, in which the warriors are relatively lightly armoured. As modern infantry troops usually define their subgroups differently (such as by weapon or type of attack), 'heavy infantry' almost always is used to describe pre-gunpowder age troops.
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“Now we will have a Christ.
He covers her like a heavy door
and shuts her lifetime up
into this dump-faced day.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)