petronel

The petronel is a compromise between the harquebus and the pistol.

The sclopus was the prototype of the petronel.

The petronel was succeeded by a similarly armed cavalryman called the harquebusier.

By extension, the term petronel was also used to describe the type of light cavalryman who employed the firearm.

Sir Petronel promises Gertrude a coach and six and a castle.

The petronel (cavalryman) was used to give support to more heavily armoured cavalry such as demi-lancers and cuirassiers.

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

"Weather" follows the activities of an Ultra, Inigo, whose ship Petronel is attacked by pirates.

Saxon lay across the waggon with his eyes glinting like diamonds and his petronel presented at the full length of his rigid arm.

Gertrude marries the fraudulent Sir Petronel Flash, a man who possesses a title but no money.

PETRONEL, a kind of carbine or light gun carried by horsemen.

He started the 4/9 favourite, with only two horses opposing him; the 2000 Guineas winner Petronel and the three-year-old Faugh-a-Ballagh.

Quicksilver and Petronel are shipwrecked on the Isle of Dogs and are brought up on charges for their actions.

In addition to this, one man had lost his life through the bursting of an ancient petronel, and another had his arm broken by the kick of a horse.

In Eastward Ho, Sir Petronel Flash and Gertrude are shipwrecked on the Isle of Gulls.)

In September he was sent to Doncaster where he won a Queen's Plate before finishing second to Petronel in the Doncaster Cup.

Yarborough is the son of John Pelham, 7th Earl of Yarborough and Florence Anne Petronel Upton.

Some of the great horses he managed were Hermit, Petronel, Belphcebe, Pilgramage, Seabreeze, Harvester, Kilwarlin and triple crown winner Isinglass.

Other feature film appearances include Swinging with the Finkels, Witch House: The Legend of Petronel Haxley and Hallo Panda.

Sir Stephen, who had been struck by a petronel bullet, and wore a crimsoned kerchief bound round his snow-white head, saw the wisdom of the advice, and moved his townsmen as directed.

His former student Petronel Malan received a Grammy nomination from the Recording Academy (U.S.) for her recording "Transfigured Bach" on the Hänssler Classic label.

Sir Petronel takes her dowry and sends her off in a coach for an imaginary castle while he and Quicksilver set off for Virginia after Quicksilver has robbed the goldsmith.

On 15 June he ran in the Gold Cup over two and a half miles, in which his opponents included the 1880 2000 Guineas winner Petronel and the American-bred three-year-old Foxhall who had recently won the Grand Prix de Paris.