† petronelliern.
Obsolete.
A soldier armed with a petronel; = petronel n. 2.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > carbine
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a1577 G. Gascoigne Weedes in Wks. (1587) 186 Or of the stone wherwith the lock doth strike, Petronelliers, they called are by like.
1590 H. Barwick Breefe Disc. Weapons sig. Giv Sir Iohn Smith dooth commend the Long bowes and the Cros~bowes, to serue on horseback, to be better wepons then either the Petronelliers or the Pistolliers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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