mascle (maskl)

[Also maskle; With-outen mote other mascle of sulpande synne. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 725. 2. A plate of steel more or le lozenge-shaped, used in making scale-armor and similar garments of fence. -3. In her . , a bearing in the form of a lozenge perforated or voided so that the field appears through the opening. This bearing is never charged with any other. Also macle .