单词 | petronel |
释义 | petroneln. Now historical. 1. A large pistol or carbine used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp. by cavalry. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > carbine petronela1577 craboun1602 carbine1605 dragoon1622 poitrinal1824 dragon1834 a1577 G. Gascoigne Weedes in Wks. (1587) 186 Their peeces then are called Petronels. 1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 746 Being by the way shot thwart the buttocks by mine Irish boy with my Petronell. 1602 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 224 Hauing and vsing of ane pistoll and puitternell..and presenting the same, to hawe schott at Andro Hay. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 131 But he with Petronel up-heav'd, Instead of shield, the blow receiv'd. 1770 A. Brice Mobiad 85 Horsemen, their Petronels in Holsters plac'd. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 29 'Twas then I fired my petronel, And Mortham, steed and rider, fell. 1866 Catholic World Nov. 279 The progressive development of the fatal use of fire-arms, of cannon, arquebuss, petronel, and pistol, had gradually weakened faith in the utility of the chivalric steel coat. 1889 T. B. Aldrich Wyndham Towers 42 I would the Moors had got him in Algiers..Or that some shot from petronel or bow Had winged him in the folly of his flight. 1958 Times 29 Mar. 8 A pair of wheel-lock petronels..went for £240. 2000 W. Rybczynski One Good Turn iii. 58 Petronels were shortlived..and they were replaced by guns with so-called Spanish stocks, which rested against the shoulder. 2. A soldier armed with a petronel; = petronellier n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > carbine petronelliera1577 petronel1588 carabin1590 pietranell1598 carabineer1672 1588 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 152 For skarfes and capps for petronelles. ?1591 T. Coningsby Jrnl. Siege Rouen (Bodl.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1902) 17 530 They issued out againe..skirmishinge all the waie with some of our patronells. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 160 There be neuer an ale-house in England,..but sets forth some poets petternels or demilances to the paper warres in Paules Church-yard. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iii. i. §5. 82 The third sort which are Carbines, are armed Petronels. 1798 J. Bruce Rep. Arrangem. Internal Def. these Kingdoms ii. 46 The captains of petronels, were to have the power to drive the cattle inland. 1873 Appletons' Jrnl. Apr. 466/1 The imagination is at once taken back to the time when artillery consisted of sakers and falconets, and musketry of arquebuses and petronels. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. 359 Every J.P. was to find two petronels on horseback, i.e. horse-pistoliers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。