à rouet

adjective

Having a small wheel fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.

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Meanings

adjectiveà rouet (not comparable)
  1. historicalnot comparableengineeringHaving a small wheel fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.

    The earliest pistols were made with wheels (à rouet), and the barrel did not measure more than a foot in length.

    1875, P. L. Jacob ·, The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance, page 104
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    Soon the petronel was replaced by the arquebuse à rouet, and a little later on by the wheel-lock pistol, which was first used by the German cavalry at the battle of St. Quentin, in 1557.

    1937, Franklin Henry Hooper, The Encyclopædia Britannica - Volume 5, page 69

    In 1639–42, the average value of an arquebus à rouet was 80 livres; flintlock muskets were valued at 6 livres.

    2008, David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream, page 617
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