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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

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Occularium: The slit in a helmet for the wearer to see through

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