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:

     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)

1. perrier (mortar)

Descendants

• → English: perrier
• French: pierrier