Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedereros
Literary usage of Pedereros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by Jan van Riebeeck (1898)
"In the battery before the Fort— 2 metal pedereros marked with the arms of Portugal,
the one marked ... Two iron quick-firing pedereros firing 10 Ib balls. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Pizarro had placed on the roof of the building his artillery (two pedereros) that
could not be pointed except horizontally. When the Indians thronged into ..."
3. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by John Franklin Jameson (1909)
"Breteuil cannon, and as many pedereros. This has been reserved and is maintained
by the West India Company. This fort was formerly on an island in the river ..."
4. European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its by Frances Gardiner Davenport, Charles Oscar Paullin (1917)
"... [pedereros] ), each shooting iron balls of 5 or 6 pounds, respectively, and
provided with munitions of war in proportion. And if greater ships shall be ..."
5. Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi by Jean Cavelier, John Gilmary Shea, Jean François de St. Cosme Buisson, Jacques Gravier, Louis Ignace Guignas (1861)
"... bay.91 There are more than 120 men in this fort, which is very regular, with
12 pieces of cannon and as many pedereros planted on the ..."
6. Historical Records and Studies (1906)
"Bullets whistled through the streets and two of the four "pedereros" or howitzers
were firing at the city almost daily, though with hardly any effect. ..."
7. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1897)
"... a vessel carrying twenty guns, twenty pedereros* and one hundred and ninety-three
men under command of a French chevalier named John ..."
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