pedereroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Spanish pedrero, from Medieval Latin petrarium. Compare petrary.

名詞

pederero (複数形 pedereros または pedereroes)

1. (military, now historical) A short piece of chambered ordnance, used to fire stones in naval and siege warfare. [from 16th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 2, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

     His habitation is defended by a ditch, over which he has laid a draw-bridge, and planted his court-yard with patereroes continually loaded with shot […] .