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Matrass

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bolt for a crossbow. obsolete
  2. 2
    A type of bolthead flask used in chemical distillation. archaic

    "So the learn’d Alchemist exulting sees / Rise in his bright matrass Diana’s trees […]."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman matraz (“shaft, dart”), Middle French materas, from an unattested post-classical variant of Latin mataris, materis (“Gaulish throwing-spear”), from a Gaulish language.

Etymology 2

From New Latin matracium and its source, Middle French matheras, matraz etc., either from Middle French materas (see Etymology 1, above), with reference to its shape, or from Arabic مطرة, مطارة (“leather bottle, vase”).

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