rouet
English
Etymology
Noun
rouet (plural rouets)
- (firearms, historical) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rouet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Further reading
- “rouet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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