perrier
See also: Perrier
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French perriere, perrier, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French perrière, pierrier. Compare pederero.
Noun
perrier (plural perriers)
- (military, historical) A short mortar used for throwing stone shot.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perrier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Franco-Provençal
Noun
perrier ?
Old French
Noun
perrier oblique singular, m (oblique plural perriers, nominative singular perriers, nominative plural perrier)
- perrier (mortar)
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