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)

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Piat

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

Early in 1624 he had written to Father Piat hoping that he might live and die in his Huron mission at Carhagouha.

From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis

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 Emma Helen Blair

The Cathedral of Chartres is so fortunate as to possess sundry relics of St. Taurin, especially potent against dry weather, and some of St. Piat, very nearly as infallible against wet weather.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White