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mant·let

 (mănt′lĭt)
n.
Variant of mantelet..
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Noun1.mantlet - portable bulletproof sheltermantlet - portable bulletproof shelter  
mantelet
shelter - a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
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The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take up three whole months; and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more.
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Learn also, I pray you, to shoot with a dropping shaft; for though a bowman may at times be called upon to shoot straight and fast, yet it is more often that he has to do with a town-guard behind a wall, or an arbalestier with his mantlet raised when you cannot hope to do him scathe unless your shaft fall straight upon him from the clouds.
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