English Explanatory Dictionary

matrass

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bolt for a crossbow.
noun
  1. A type of bolthead flask used in chemical distillation.

Word forms

matrass matrasses

Etymology

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.

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