mantelet

He remembereth his worthies: They stumble in their march; They make haste to the wall thereof, And the mantelet is prepared.

This mantelet, as we afterwards learned, gave rise to a somewhat singular occurrence.

The most interesting example which we have met of the employment of the pavis and mantelet, is in a picture in the Harl.

But the archers of the besiegers sought to put themselves on more equal terms with their opponents by using the pavis or mantelet.