petre

See also: Petre and pêtre

English

Noun

petre (uncountable)

1. (archaic) saltpetre
   • 1841, The Farmer's Magazine (page 282)

     Oats are much assisted by the application of petre […]

Derived terms

• oil of petre

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “petre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Peret, Peter, Prete, peert, peter, repet.