singular

Duty; tax.

1. Ordinance.
2. Decree; authoritative order.

1. Day-laborer.
2. Unskilled laborer taking up different types of work.

Permit.

1. Keep; citadel.
2. Fortress with a seigneurial residence.

Effort, attention, care.

1. Rampart.
2. Defensive wall encircling a castle or city, usually wide enough to allow for a walkway on the top.

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]

1. Rubble.
2. During the second Guerra Fernandina, King Enrique II of Castile ordered four siege engines to throw rubble, pedra perdida, at the walls of the besieged city of Lisbon (1373). [Fernando ch. 80: 45-47]

1. Set of artillery equipment consiting of a series of smaller cannons fixed on a platform, often a whelled platform, and having the capability of firing almost simultaneously, used mainly during 15th-17th century.
2. Large crossbow fixed to a wheeled base or to the walls of a fortress.
3. The term comes from the French ribaut or ribaude.

[Obs: This English term has been added to the glossary merely asa reference, to help understand the range of piroballistic weapons available in the later Middle-Ages.]