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† passe-volant Obs.
Also 6 pasuolan, Sc. paswolent, -voland, 7 pas-, pass-, passevolant.
[a. F. passe-volant (pɑsvɔla+ɛ̃), 1529 in Hatz.-Darm., It. passauolante (Florio), f. F. passe, It. passa (see passe-) + volant, volante flying.]
1. A small cannon used in the 16th and 17th centuries; = base n.6
1513Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 487 Item, to Alexander Routh for vij new paswolentis, the price of the pece iij li. greit. 1524in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. i. 79 The meane shot, as sacres and pasuolans, were in great number. 1566Inv. R. Wardr. (1814) 172 Item ane pasvoland of brace upone ane traist. 1656Blount Glossogr., Pasvolant, the Artillery called a Base. [1867Smyth 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. (See quots.) (So in Fr.)
[1611Cotgr., Passevolant,..also, a hireling whom a Captaine, on Muster dayes, foisteth into his companie; and generally, any such skipiacke, or base nimblesbie.] 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 105 Letters from the Lords in England, requiring that no Captain should supply his Company with Passe-volants at pleasure. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Pass⁓volant, or passe-volant, a faggot, or a pretended soldier,..whom the captain or colonel makes pass in review, or muster, to shew that his company is compleat, or to receive pay thereof to his own profit... In France the passe-volants are condemned to be marked on the cheek with a flower de luce. |