Definitions for petronels

petronels pet·ro·nel

Spelling: [pe-truh-nl]
IPA: /ˈpɛ trə nl/

Petronels is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 590 anagrams from letters in petronels (eelnoprst).

Definitions for petronels

noun

  1. a firearm of large caliber, used from the 15th to the 17th century, that fired with its butt resting against the chest.

Origin of petronels

1570-80; Middle French petrinal, dialectal variant of poitrinal, equivalent to poitrine chest (Vulgar Latin *pectorīna, noun use of feminine of *pectorīnus of the breast; see Examples for petronels

He sprang up, striking the table with the palm of his hand until it sounded like the shot of a petronel.

petronel, pet′ro-nel, n. a large horse-pistol: a small carbine.

It was, it struck me, from a petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days.

Here, neighbour Security, to the health of Sir petronel, and all his captains.

“Your own is not worth half the sum,” rejoined Catesby; and levelling the petronel, he shot him dead.

Scarcely an instant elapsed before he was beside the squire, and presented a petronel at his head.

Nay, weep not, good Sin; my petronel is in as good possibility as he.

“We will resist them to the last,” said Guy Fawkes, drawing a petronel.

Catesby replied by drawing a petronel, and firing it in the supposed direction of the speaker.

This done, he planted himself in front of the panel, and with a petronel in each hand, menaced his opponents.

Word Value for petronels
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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