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• caltrop spiked device which always presents an upward facing spike used to impede men and, particularly, horses
• cannon hollow tube used to launch a missile using gunpowder.
• canonical hours the church bell was rung eight times, Matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline
• canting arms which are designed as a pun on the name of their bearer. i.e Queen Mother, bows and a lion = Bowes-Lyon
• carucate as much land as a team can plough in a year
• ceorl a freeman who is not a noble
• chainmail see mail
• cobbler a repairer of footwear as opposed to a maker of footwear
• coif a hood made of mail which covers the head
• constable the principle officer of the household of a noble or king, a hundred or a town
• corbel a stone bracket
• crenel the open section of a battlement
• cuirass plate armour for the body generally consisting of breast and back plates and protection for the hips
• cuisse armour - plate covering the upper leg, thigh to knee
• curtain a wall surrounding a castle enclosure
   

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