Meanings of petronel in anglès

When I heard that, I saw my way in the snap of a petronel.'

One of the men instantly levelled his petronel at him.

He had both dagger and arquebus, and I my hand petronel and dagger too.

Alvaro Nunes had still five charges for his arquebus, and I as many for my hand petronel.

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

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

But Maximilian, now drawing a petronel which hung at his belt, cocked it as rapidly as his embarrassed motions allowed him.

A petronel bullet had glanced off my front plate, striking it at an angle, and had left a broad groove across it.

Besides these, he had a couple of petronels stuck in his girdle.

Horse and foot, carbines and petronels, swords and pole-axes, are mingled in one struggling mass.

'What do you load your petronels with, good Master Clarke?'

Petronel Ð a hand-cannon.

Ten or twelve had petronels, which, from their antique look and rusty condition, threatened to be more dangerous to their possessors than to the enemy.

You have many things to learn, and one of them is not to present petronels too readily at folk's heads when you are on horseback.