amartellar

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Etymology

From a- +‎ martell (hammer [of a gun]) +‎ -ar.

Verb

amartellar (first-person singular present amartello, first-person singular preterite amartellí, past participle amartellat)

  1. (transitive) (of firearms) to cock
    • 2022 February 12, Joan Garí, “Trenta anys sense Joan Fuster”, in El País, Sota el volcà:
      Va ser, com ell mateix va pregonar de Bertrand Russell, un desinfectant moral, i va amartellar una arma formidable contra tota mena de tòpics[.]
      He was, as he himself said of Bertrand Russel, a moral disinfectant, and he cocked a formidable firearm at all manner of topics[.]

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