The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acton \Ac"ton\, n. [OF. aketon, auqueton, F. hoqueton, a quilted
jacket, fr. Sp. alcoton, algodon, cotton. Cf. Cotton.]
A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket
plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.]
--Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of aketon English)
Usage examples of "hacqueton".
It ran wetly, redly, from the worn sleeve of his leather hacqueton to drop upon his big hand and ooze across the pommel of his shattered sword.
His heavily muscled body wore his dented mailed shirt, the leather hacqueton beneath it, his fur kilt and the fur-flapped war-boots on his feet.
He had often patched his torn garments or his quilted hacqueton rent in battle.
The arrow had slit through the mail shirt and padded hacqueton like a bodkin sliding through linen, killing the crossbowman almost instantly.
The two brothers wore leather trousers and stained hacquetons, having shed their mail.