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hacqueton

hacqueton is the alternative form of aketon.

Meaning of aketon

Noun

aketon (plural aketons)

  1. (historical) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.
    • The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds...1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15

Forms of hacqueton

pluralhacquetons

Questions about hacqueton

What is hacqueton the alternative form of?
Hacqueton is the alternative form of aketon.

Words near hacqueton in the dictionary

  1. hacoversed sine
  2. hacoversed sines
  3. hacoversin
  4. hacoversine
  5. hacoversines
  6. hacqueton
  7. hacquetons
  8. hacrobian
  9. hacrobians
  10. hactivism
  11. hactivist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hacqueton (page history and authors); aketon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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