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English
Etymology
Old French perriere, perrier, French perrière, pierrier. Compare pederero.
Noun
perrier (plural perriers)
- (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: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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French
Noun
perrier oblique singular, m (oblique plural perriers, nominative singular perriers, nominative plural perrier)
- perrier (mortar)
Descendants