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Mace: A short staff with heavy head like a club
Machicolations: Openings in a floor allowing missiles to be dropped on the enemy below
Malvoisin: A large mound of earth or stone built by attackers near a castle used for firing from
Men-at-arms: Common medieval soldiers
Merlon: The 'teeth' of the battlements between crenels
Misericorde: A dagger with a fine blade used to put injured soldiers out of their misery on the battlefield
Moat: A ditch surrounding a building filled with water
Motte: A large earth mound either natural or artificial on which a keep is built
Murder-hole: Openings in a floor allowing missiles to be dropped on the enemy below
Occularium: The slit in a helmet for the wearer to see through