acton

noun Armor.

1. a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.

noun

1. LordJohn Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron, 1834–1902, English historian.
2. a former municipal borough in SE England, now part of the London borough of Ealing: center of Puritanism at the time of Cromwell.
3. a city in NE Massachusetts.

noun (in medieval Europe)

1. a jacket or jerkin, originally of quilted cotton, worn under a coat of mail
2. a leather jacket padded with mail

noun

1. a district of the London borough of Ealing

noun

1. John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron. 1834–1902, English historian: a proponent of Christian liberal ethics and adviser of Gladstone
2. his grandfather, Sir John Francis Edward. 1736–1811, European naval commander and statesman: admiral of Tuscany (1774–79) and Naples (1779 onwards) and chief minister of Naples (1779–1806)