noun

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.

1. Obliged.
2. Ser teúdo de...: to be obliged (to do something)

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

1. Census (of people resident in the kingdom). [Fernando, ch. 87: 11]
2. Apurações: plural form of the word.

1. Lance (weapon). [Fernando, ch. 87: 63]
2. Lancer; warrier who fights with a lance. [Pedro, ch. 41: 15; Fernando, ch. 87: 15]

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

1. Englishman; English (n. national; adj. pertaining to England). 
2. Ingleses / ingreses: English (pl.); English people.

Authority. [Pedro, ch. 40: 50]

1. Chief border guard. (CW)

2. Nobleman sent to command forces at the frontier (RCG)