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Grave

  1. Glaive.
  2. Polearm consisting of a long wooden pole topped by a long single-edged blade. It had a long reach, it was effective and inexpensive to produce, hence King Fernando's inclusion of this weapon in his 1373 ordinance. [Fernando, ch. 87: 62]

Conto

  1. The count of one million, usually applied to a given monetary denomination.
  2. In monetary terms, it came to mean the equivalent of one million maravedís. By the 1350s the maravedí as a currency was no longer in use, but it survived as a monetary accounting unit, i.e. a value of reference for other coins. 

Ovençal

  1. Officer (of the king or of a great lord).
  2. Generic term applied to officers responsible for the administration of the king's house or the king's estate, such as the Master of the Wardrobe, or the Chamberlain, for example.

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