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haqueton

haqueton 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 haqueton

pluralhaquetons

Questions about haqueton

What is haqueton the alternative form of?
Haqueton is the alternative form of aketon.

Words near haqueton in the dictionary

  1. Haqs
  2. Haque
  3. haquebut
  4. haquebuts
  5. Haques
  6. haqueton
  7. haquetons
  8. har
  9. har de har har
  10. har gau
  11. har gow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haqueton (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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