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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 333 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETRONEL , a 16th or 17th See also:

century See also:fire-See also:arm, defined by R. Barret (Theorike and Practike of See also:Modern Warres, 1598) as a " horseman's peece." It was the fire-arm which See also:developed on the one See also:hand into the See also:pistol and on the other into the See also:carbine. The name (Fr. petrinel for poitrinal) was given to the weapon either because it was fired with the See also:butt resting against the See also:chest (poitrine, See also:Lat. pectus) or because it was carried slung from a See also:belt across the chest.

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