chevrette

From French chevrette, diminutive of chèvre (“goat”). Compare chevron.

chevrette (plural chevrettes)

1. (military, historical) A machine for raising guns (such as a howitzer) or mortar into their carriages.

• “chevrette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From chèvre (“she-goat”) +‎ -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.vʁɛt/

  • Audio (France (Vosges)):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Homophone: chevrettes

chevrette f (plural chevrettes)

1. kid (young, female goat)
2. doe (female deer)

Related to crevette (“shrimp”) and more distantly to the chevrette of Etymology 1. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ʃəvrɛt/, /ʃəvret/, /ʃevrɛt/, /ʃærvɛt/
• Homophone: chevrettes

chevrette f (plural chevrettes)

1. (dated and colloquial or Antilles, Canada, Guyana, Louisiana, Oceania, Vendée) shrimp

   Synonym: crevette f

• “chevrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)