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petraries

petraries is the plural of petrary.

Meaning of petrary

Noun

petrary (plural petraries)

  1. A weapon used to hurl stones
    • Their boats, loaded with six months’ provisions and a petrary for shooting crucifixes, were stowed aboard.1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother

Questions about petraries

What is petraries the plural of?
Petraries is the plural of petrary.

Words near petraries in the dictionary

  1. Petrarchize
  2. Petrarchized
  3. Petrarchizes
  4. Petrarchizing
  5. petrarcid
  6. petraries
  7. petrary
  8. petre
  9. petre oil
  10. Petrea
  11. petrean

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