Noun: petrary
| Singular | petrary |
| Plural | petraries |
Sample Sentences
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Their boats, loaded with six months’ provisions and a petrary for shooting crucifixes, were stowed aboard. [1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother:]
Nouns inflected like petrary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin petraria, from Latin petra (“stone”). See: Latin Nouns '
petra'.