perrier
See also: Perrier
English edit
Etymology edit
Old French perriere, perrier, French perrière, pierrier. Compare pederero.
Noun edit
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 edit
“perrier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Franco-Provençal edit
Noun edit
perrier ?
Old French edit
Noun edit
perrier oblique singular, m (oblique plural perriers, nominative singular perriers, nominative plural perrier)
- perrier (mortar)