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paterero

paterero is the obsolete 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 paterero

pluralpatereros
pluralpatereroes

Questions about paterero

What is paterero the obsolete form of?
Paterero is the obsolete form of pederero.

Words near paterero in the dictionary

  1. pater cove
  2. pater coves
  3. pater familias
  4. patera
  5. paterae
  6. paterero
  7. patereroes
  8. patereros
  9. paterfamilial
  10. paterfamiliar
  11. paterfamilias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paterero (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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