Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A band-firearm introduced in the sixteenth century, shorter than the ordinary harquebus, but longer than the pistol; a sort of large horse-pistol. It was fired by a match-lock, wheel-lock, or other appliance, according to the period in which it was used.
- noun In heraldry, a pistol used as a bearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, weaponry A 17th century
firearm , using amatchlock or awheellock mechanism to make sparks in the firing pan.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lothian and Fife — saddle our Spanish barb, and bid French Paris see our petronel be charged! —
The Abbot 2008
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Now, amidst other brave men with swords, he would be as one that carried sword, and petronel to boot.
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
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I suffered the tortures of the damned, and fain would I have scattered my throbbing brains with that last charge of my hand petronel; but ever as I raised it dead
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell
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But even as he gibed at me, leaning over the brink, dead Alvaro's ice-cold hand guided my petronel till it covered the black fiend's body, and the iron ball struck full and true below his throat.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell
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He had both dagger and arquebus, and I my hand petronel and dagger too.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell
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Immediately (and ere I might shoot again) his fellows dragged him down, and lying prone on their bellies let fly wildly in my direction with petronel and musquetoon.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Ever and anon would come the faint crack of caliver or petronel from her high poop, and the thunder of her stern-chase guns.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Stayed the gleam on the steel cap, the glint on the slant petronel.
Ride to the Lady And Other Poems Helen Gray Cone 1896
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A petronel bullet had glanced off my front plate, striking it at an angle, and had left a broad groove across it.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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When I heard that, I saw my way in the snap of a petronel. '
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
reesetee commented on the word petronel
See petronellier.
April 11, 2008