acketon

Noun

1. Alternative form of aketon.
   • The pay of the other soldiers was, as is said above, the same as in the preceding reign, except that the foot foldiers, armed with acketons and bacinetts, received 3d. each per diem; and those unarmed, stiled naked...
   • and certain lames of the pauldrons and tasses. The armour was generally more or less lined throughout, and in the place of the gambesons, acketons, etc., of the earlier Middle Ages, we have the arming-doublet […] -...