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Medieval Term of the Week: Hoardings

Hoarding
[hawr-ding, hohr-]

Wooden galleries erected on the face of a castle’s battlements to enable the defenders to fire on men attacking the base of the wall. (Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare, 249)

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