Crossword-Solution: PEDRERO 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Third class guns fired stone balls to break and sink ships and defend batteries from assault; such guns included the pedrero, mortar, and bombard (fig.

The third class of ordnance included the guns firing stone projectiles, such as the pedrero (or perrier, petrary, cannon petro, etc.), the mortars, and the old bombards like Edinburgh Castle's famous Mons Meg.

The small arc inside the bore indicates the powder chamber found in the pedrero and mortar.] Mortars (fig.

Bombs and carcasses were usual for mortar firing, but stone projectiles remained in use as late as 1800 for the pedrero class (fig.

There were eight cannon of bronze, with ladles; twenty-seven versos, a cast-iron pedrero, a great many chambers for versos, and more than a hundred muskets and arquebuses; and an infinite quantity of bullets, iron, powder, arrows, and _sompites_, a kind of little arrow which they shoot by means of blowpipes [87]--so poisonous that, unless very powerful remedies are soon applied, it kills in a few hours.