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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

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

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ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm, defined by R . Barret (Theorike and Practike of

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MODERN

Modern Warres, 1598) as a " horseman's peece." It was the fire-arm which

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DEVELOPED

developed on the one

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hand into the

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PISTOL

pistol and on the other into the

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CARBINE (Fr. carabine, Ger. Karabiner)

carbine . The name (Fr. petrinel for poitrinal) was given to the weapon either because it was fired with the

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butt resting against the

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CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest (poitrine,

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LAT

Lat. pectus) or because it was carried slung from a

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belt across the chest .

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