单词 | passe-volant |
释义 | passe-volantn. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces murderer1495 curtala1509 minion1513 passe-volant1513 pikmoyane1513 saker1521 base1539 robinet1547 quarter cannon?a1549 bersec1550 murdresarc1550 yetling1558 battardc1565 demi-cannon1577 calabass1578 double curtal1582 demi-culverin1587 rabinet1596 murdering piece1601 drake1627 putter1646 cartow1650 putterlingc1650 minion drakea1661 cut1672 under-saker1678 murther1688 carronade1779 carthoun1849 1513 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 487 Item, to Alexander Routh for vij new paswolentis, the price of the pece iij li. greit. 1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Bvj The meane shot as sacres and pasuolans were in grete nombre. 1566 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 172 Item ane pasvoland of brace upone ane traist. 1588 C. Lucar Appendix xxxvii. 33 in tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting Ovr great peeces of artillery are knowne by these names:..Minion of the biggest sort, Minion of the ordinary sort, Moiane, Passauolante or Zebratana, [etc.]. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pasvolant, the Artillery called a Base. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Passe-volant, a name applied by the French to a Quaker or wooden gun on board ship; but it was adopted by our early voyagers as also expressing a movable piece of ordnance. 2. Military. A man temporarily hired as a pretend or dummy soldier in order to supply a deficiency at the muster or on the roll of a company or regiment. Cf. faggot n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > mercenary wagerc1420 knight wager1513 mercenary1523 lance-knight1530 suddart1542 hireling1547 adventurer1548 venturer1572 lansquenet1577 warmonger1590 mercenarian1598 passe-volant1617 provantman1659 soldier of fortune1661 privateer1676 routier1683 bravo1761 stipendiary1768 free companion1804 freelance1819 free-rider1821 freelancer1854 merchant of death1934 merc1967 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Passevolant,..also, a hireling whom a Captaine, on Muster dayes, foisteth into his companie; and generally, any such skipiacke, or base nimblesbie.] 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 105 Letters from the Lords in England, requiring that no Captain should supply his Company with Passe-volants at pleasure. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pass Pass-Volant, a Fagot, or a pretended soldier... In France the Passe-volants are condemn'd to be mark'd on the Cheek with a Flour-de-lis. 1953 W. H. Lewis Splendid Cent. (1957) v. 132 In 1663 a detected passe volant was flogged. 1994 French Hist. Stud. 18 896 Parrott then further reduces the actual number, by assuming a 25 percent error caused by officers padding their companies with phony soldiers, passe volants, at reviews. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1513 |
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