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Definition of Petronels
1. petronel [n] - See also: petronel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petronels
Literary usage of Petronels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manuscripts of the Right Honourable F. J. Savile Foljambe, of Osberton by Francis John Savile Foljambe, James, Great Britain Privy Council (1897)
"Forster, Edw. ; petronels 2, Capt. . Gloucester : Charles Bridges and Jo. ...
Lances 23 ; lighthorse 130 ; petronels. Dorset: Sir Henry Asheley, Sir Jo. ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1850)
"In doing this, he was compelled to lay down his petronels, ... Accordingly, he
drew a brace of petronels, and holding them at their heads, commanded them to ..."
3. Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First by Edmund Spenser, John Davies, Henry Morley, Fynes Moryson (1890)
"These, truly, which ye have repeated seem very frivolous and fruitless ; for by
the breach of them little damage or 1 Petronels, horse-pistols, from Spanish ..."
4. Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First by Edmund Spenser, John Davies, Henry Morley, Fynes Moryson (1890)
"These, truly, which ye have repeated seem very frivolous and fruitless; for by
the breach of them little damage or ! l Petronels, horse-pistols, ..."
5. Micah Clarke by Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
"You have many things to learn, and one of them is not to present petronels too
readily at folks' heads when you are on horseback. The jerk of your charger's ..."
6. The Manuscripts of the Duke of Somerset, the Marquis of Ailesbury, and the by Algernon St. Maur Somerset, Henry Augustus Brudenell-Bruce Ailesbury, Theophilus Henry Gresley Puleston, Peter Lely, Anna Seward, William Page (1898)
"As soon as they approached, he jumped out of his chair, handed his petronels, -which
having discharged, they returned the like, not only with ..."
7. The Manuscripts of the Duke of Somerset, the Marquis of Ailesbury, and the by Algernon St. Maur Somerset, Henry Augustus Brudenell-Bruce Ailesbury, Theophilus Henry Gresley Puleston, Peter Lely, Anna Seward, William Page (1898)
"CONTRIBUTIONS for LIGHT HORSE and Petronels. 1596, April 26. — The names of such
gentlemen as are, aud have been, charged with light horses and ..."
8. Pryings Among Private Papers: Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth by Thomas De Longueville (1905)
"As soon as they approached, he jumped out of his chair, handed his petronels,
which having discharged, they returned the like, not only with ..."
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