PETRONEL

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PETRONEL , a 16th or 17th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

fire

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

-arm, defined by R. Barret (Theorike and Practike of

Modern

MODERN

Warres, 1598) as a " horseman's peece." It was the

fire

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

-arm which

developed

DEVELOPED

on the one hand into the

pistol

PISTOL

and on the other into the carbine. The name (Fr. petrinel for poitrinal) was given to the weapon either because it was fired with the

butt

BUTT
BUTT,
ISAAC
- ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)
(1813-1879)

resting against the

chest

CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

(poitrine, Lat. pectus) or because it was carried slung from a belt across the

chest

CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

.

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