masculine

1. Slinger.
2. Soldier specialized in the use of the sling, or different types of slings.

1. Short spear; javelin. 
2. Short spear used primarily to be thrown at the enemy.

1. Arming sword.
2. Shorter sword (shorter than the estoc for example) which a man-at-arms carried as part of his most basic level of equipment, regardless of what other optional weapons he chose to carry. (TC)

1. Cuisses.
2. A general term referring to any armour for the thighs. (TC)

1. Coat of plates; jack; jakke.
2. Protective padded jacket similar to an aketon. It was commonly used by infantrymen and it often had the added protection of metal plates.
3. These could have the colours or heraldic device of a given lord or army sown on. In the Chronicle of King João I, part 2, Fernão Lopes says that after their defeat at the battle of Aljubarrota (1385), the retreating Castilians turned their "jaques" inside out in order not to be recognized, though they were betrayed by their tongue whenever they spoke. [João2, ch. 45: 46]

1. Gambeson, aketon.
2. A coat made of padded textile, worn by itself as the primary body armour, or under a mail shirt. (TC) [Fernando, ch. 87: 58]
3. Bibl: J. Gouveia Monteiro, A Guerra em Portugal nos finais da Idade Média (Lisboa: Editorial Notícias, 1998), pp. 535-536.

Retired.

1. Healthy. [Fernando, ch.87: 20]
2. Able-bodied.

Vassal; person who received a certain sum of money or estate as a contract to serve the king.

1. Breton; person from Brittany.
2. Bretões / bertoões: Bretons; people from Brittany.