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pedrero Now Hist.|pɛˈdrɛərəʊ|
Forms: α. 6 pedrera, 8 peder-, pidr-, pedrero. β. 6–7 petrera, 7 petrara, peterera, petarrero, 8 peteraro, 8–9 pet(t)erero. γ. 7–9 paterero, 8 patar-, paderero, pattararo, (paterro), 8–9 pat(t)er-, patararo, patter-, patarrero.
[a. Sp. pedrero ‘a murthering peece vsed in warres, to shoot chaineshot or stones from’ (Minsheu) = Cat. pedrer, Pg. pedreiro, It. petriere, Pr. peirier, F. pierrier, formerly perrier, all repr. L. type *petrārius, -um, in med.L. petrāria a stone-throwing engine (Du Cange), from petrārius adj., f. petra stone: cf. petrary, perrier. The English forms show many corruptions of the original, the later ones being app. influenced by patter v.]
A piece of ordnance originally for discharging stones; formerly also used to discharge broken iron, partridge-shot, etc.; and for firing salutes.
α1598Barret Theor. Warres v. 124 The Cannon and double Cannon; the Pedrera, Basilisco, and such like. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Pedrero, or as it is usually called by the Seamen, Petterero, is a small piece of Ordnance, most used on board of Ships to fire Stones, Nails, broken Iron, or Partridge-shot. 1706Phillips, Pederero. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 346 A Ship..carrying 20 Guns, and 20 Brass Pedreros. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. viii. 380 The galeon..had..twenty-eight pidreroes in her gunwale. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Clef de pierrier, the forelock of a pedrero or swivel-gun.
β1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Afr. Introd. 40 Stricken with a little gunne called Petrera. 1675in J. Easton Narr. (1858) 104, [I] will gett and fitt up a Petrara for Capt. Chambers. 1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 65 Our greate gunns..and our petarreros humming. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1130/4 Three Guns, and one Peterera. 1759Falconer 90-Gun Ship 47 While peteraroes swell with infant rage. 1827Sir J. Barrington Pers. Recoll. (1876) 9 The hereditary petereroes scarcely ceased cracking all the evening.
γ1689Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 620 A French privateer of 22 guns and 16 patereroes. 1693R. Lyde Retaking of Ship ‘Friend's Adventure’ 2 A Privateer of St. Malloes, of twenty-two Guns, eight Pattereroes. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 274 This ship..of 700 tons, 8 guns, and 10 patareroes. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake I. xii. 86 He directed the Grenadiers..to march with Paterro's, and some Field-pieces to follow. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. xix, Had it been his last crown, he would have sat down and hammered it into a paderero, to have prevented a single wish in his master. 1823in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. 527 They fired a four pound patterero. 1844Tupper Crock of G. liii. 337 The patereroes on the lawn thunder a salute. 1886V. Lovett Cameron Cruise ‘Black Prince’ xix. 230 The fort..mounted twenty-two iron guns besides pateraroes. |