Old French perriere, perrier, French perrière, pierrier. Compare pederero.
Noun[edit]perrier (plural perriers)
(military, historical) A short mortar used for throwing stone shot. 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Nigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:FIrst there were sixe great gunnes, cannons perriers of brasse , that shot a stone of three foote and a halfe References[edit]“perrier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French[edit] Noun[edit]perrier oblique singular, m (oblique plural perriers, nominative singular perriers, nominative plural perrier)
perrier (mortar) Descendants[edit] → English: perrier French: pierrier