Piat

American  

[pee-at, -aht] / ˈpi æt, -ɑt /

noun

1. a spring-powered British antitank weapon of World War II, mounted on a tripod and capable of firing a 2½-pound (1-kilogram) bomb up to 350 yards (320 meters).

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Etymology

Origin of Piat

P(rojector) i(nfantry) a(nti)t(ank)

Example Sentences

Chief Executive Officer of French artificial heart manufacturer Carmat, Stephane Piat, poses holding an artificial heart during an interview with Reuters in Velizy, near Paris, January 11, 2021.

From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2021

HYERES: The investigation into the February murder of French legislator and anticrime crusader Yann Piat near this southern city took a new twist last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

A guide informed him of certain villages located in the mountain to the left, called Piat, Pulinguri, Malias, Ybana, and Aplad.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Father Piat left Quebec for the Montagnais mission, while Father Huet was sent to Three Rivers, and Father Poullain to the Nipissing mission in the west.

From The Makers of Canada: Champlain by Dionne, N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope)

Fathers Guillaume Galleran and Irénée Piat came in 1622, the former in the capacity of visitor and superior.

From The Makers of Canada: Champlain by Dionne, N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope)