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† perrier1 Obs.
Also 5 perrerer, perierer, 7 perier.
[a. OF. perrier (12–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm., now pierrier) = Sp. pedrero, It. petriere, repr. a L. type *petrārius, and parallel to OF. perrière, med.L. petrāria (Du Cange) in same sense, deriv. of L. petra, F. pierre stone: cf. petrary and pedrero.]
orig. A ballistic engine or cannon for discharging stones; later, a small gun with which ships were armed = pedrero.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 111 If þou shall assayll castels, vse Instrumentz castyng stones, as Mangoles or Perrerers. 1481Caxton Godeffroy clxxiv. 257 They..dyde do make engyns, perierers, Magonneauls, castellys, chattes. 1524in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. 79 Artillerie of the Turkes..cannons perriers of brasse, that shot a stone of three foote and a halfe. 1643Lanc. Tracts 174 The noise of 9 canon and 2 periers. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Perriers, a small sort of Great Guns that shoot Stones, carried by Privateers. [1885C. W. C. Oman Art of War 57 Against walls fifteen to thirty feet thick, the feeble..perrieres, catapults,..and so forth, beat without perceptible effect.] |