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paderero

paderero is the alternative form of pederero.

Meaning of pederero

Noun

pederero (plural pedereros or pedereroes)

  1. (historical) A short piece of chambered ordnance, used to fire stones in naval and siege warfare.
    • His habitation is defended by a ditch, over which he has laid a draw-bridge, and planted his court-yard with patereroes continually loaded with shot […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of paderero

pluralpadereros
pluralpadereroes

Questions about paderero

What is paderero the alternative form of?
Paderero is the alternative form of pederero.

Words near paderero in the dictionary

  1. pademelons
  2. Paden
  3. Padens
  4. paderaite
  5. Paderborn
  6. paderero
  7. padereroes
  8. padereros
  9. Paderewski
  10. Paderne
  11. padesoy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paderero (page history and authors); pederero (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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