acketon

English

Noun

acketon (plural acketons)

1. Alternative form of aketon
   • 1801, Francis Grose, Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army: From the Conquest to the Present Time, page 277:

     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 footmen ...

   • 2002, Francis Michael Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 73:

     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 […]