mitraille

See also: mitraillé

English

Etymology

From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”). See also mitrailleur.

Noun

mitraille (uncountable)

  1. (military, historical) shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mitraille in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Etymology

From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”), from Old Dutch mite (“something small”), from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect; literally, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.tʁaj/

Noun

mitraille f (plural mitrailles)

  1. grapeshot

Verb

mitraille

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mitrailler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of mitrailler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mitrailler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of mitrailler
  5. second-person singular imperative of mitrailler
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