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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
Mangonel: A siege engine used for throwing large stones
Manor: The land owned by a lord.
Martyr: Someone who would rather die than renounce their faith
Mason: A craftsman who cuts and builds with stone
Men-at-arms: Common medieval soldiers
Merlon: The 'teeth' of the battlements between crenels
Minster: Large church originally linked to a monastery
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
Monastery: Where monks or nuns live
Monk: A man who has taken vows and joined a religious community
Motte: A large earth mound either natural or artificial on which a keep is built
Mouldings: Ornamental lines of carved projections under or over a plain surface
Mullion: Vertical bars in windows that divide the area into smaller sections
Murder-hole: Openings in a floor allowing missiles to be dropped on the enemy below
Nave: The main body of a church from the west end to the choir. The nave could be divided north and south by screens (More...)
Newel Stair: Spiral staircase made of keyhole shaped stones
Niche: An ornamental recess in a wall containing a statue
Obelisk: Memorial stone column
Occularium: The slit in a helmet for the wearer to see through
Of the Field: A term used in blazonry when a tincture is used more than once
Ogree Arch: A pointed arch with both concave and convex parts
Or: A colour used in heraldry representing the metal gold (More...)
Oratory: A small cell attached to a chapel
Ordinaries: The basic geometrical shapes (charges) used in heraldry (More...)
Oriel: A kind of bay window
Orle: A heraldic shape forming a border near the edge of a shield (More...)
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