mantelet

A short cape.

A mobile screen or shield formerly used to protect besieging soldiers.

A short cloak or mantle.

A woman’s garment, narrower than the mantle, and approaching the form of a tippet or broad scarf, worn over the shoulders.

Same as cointoise. See also lambrequin, 1 .

In gunnery, a shield to protect men serving guns in embrasures, casemates, or portholes from the bullets of sharpshooters.

A movable roof or screen used in sieges, etc., to protect the besiegers in their attacks. See cat-castle, vinea, sow, 4.

A movable shelter used in a hunting-field.

A flexible covering, usually of rope, drawn close round a gun when it is discharged.