feminine

Retribution; reparation.

Rage; anger.

1. Tunny-fishing.
2. Tunny-fising ground.

Carrack. (PK)

1. Coat of plates; plate armour.
2. Armour made of iron or steel plates shaped as a flouder, the fish, solha in Portuguese.

1. Raid.
2. Campaign. [Pedro, ch. 36: 29]

1. Belfry, siege engine, siege tower. [Fernando, ch. 20; João2, chs. 12, 135]
2. Wooden tower normally used in attacking city walls. (CW)
3. See Ian Barnes, The Historical Atlas of Knights and Castles (New York: Chartwell Books, 2007), p. 222 and 226.

1. Adargue; heart-shaped shield. See 'Knights and Chivalry:  Glossary',  http://members.tripod.com/aaron_neilson/glossary.html
2. Oval or heart-shaped leather shield.
3. (Fig.) Defense, shelter.

1. Mealha; copper coin of little value. In fact, a mealha was a dinheiro literally cut in half, occasionally even cut into quarters.
2. 1 mealha = 1/2 dinheiro.