MANTELET

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

2.
n.

A short cloak or mantle worn by women. A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging. Chaucer.

3.
n.

A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.


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