perrier

See also: Perrier

English

Etymology

Old French perriere, perrier, French perrière, pierrier. Compare pederero.

Noun

perrier (plural perriers)

  1. (military, historical) A short mortar used for throwing stone shot.
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], OCLC 753964576:
      FIrst there were sixe great gunnes, cannons perriers of brasse , that shot a stone of three foote and a halfe

References

perrier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Franco-Provençal

Noun

perrier ?

  1. scree

Old French

Noun

perrier m (oblique plural perriers, nominative singular perriers, nominative plural perrier)

  1. perrier (mortar)

Descendants
  • → English: perrier
  • French: pierrier
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