percuteur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French percuteur.

Noun

percuteur (plural percuteurs)

1. A medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
   • 1846, The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 1, page 18:

     To return to my narrative: furnished with a percuteur, I had not long to wait for an opportunity of employing it. In February, 1834, a man of the name of Doyle was admitted into the hospital with symptoms of calculus […]

French

Etymology

From percuter +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

percuteur m (plural percuteurs)

1. firing pin

Further reading

• “percuteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.