picard

plural picards

1. historicalnauticalA type of light, seaworthy vessel used in trade and the transport of fish in Britain and Ireland in the late medieval and early modern period.

   Picards were very small. They were sailing lighters of some kind, primarily used to carry the catches from fishing boats at sea to port.

   2015, Ian Friel, Henry V’s Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest, 1413–1422, →ISBN

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   Others, used commonly as fishing boats and in trade with Ireland, were “picards”, named often in the Tolsey Court books as pledges for debts, and worth about £8.

   1933, E. M. Carus Wilson, “The Overseas Trade of Bristol”, in Eileen Power, M. M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, page 239

   Irish picards were noted as leaving Bridgewater or Minehead one day with small cargoes of salt or victuals, and returning the next or even the same day with loads of fish.

   1947, Dorothy Burwash, English Merchant Shipping, 1460–1540

1. not comparableOf, from or relating to Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.

   Synonyms: Picardian

plural Picards

1. A native or inhabitant of Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.

   Synonyms: Picardian

2. historicalA member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.
3. historicalA high shoe for men, introduced to England from France about 1720.

1. A Romance language closely related to French.
2. A surname from French.

   The statements of Mr. Sulman and Mr. Picard, two Minerals Separation engineers, […] form an interesting comparison

   1920, American Institute of Mining Engineers, Engineering and mining journal: Volume 110

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   Dr. Crusher, using the sample Shinzon provided, confirms that he is a clone of Captain Picard. Furious, Picard wants to know who stole a piece of him.

   2003, Larry Nemecek, The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion: Revised Edition, page 349