fer : Idioms & Phrases

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chemin de fer

  • noun a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine
    baccarat.
WordNet

fer-de-lance

  • noun large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America
    Bothrops atrops.
WordNet
Fer`-de-lance" noun
Etymology
F., the iron of a lance, lance head.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus now Bothrops atrox) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle. also in Central America.
Webster 1913

martel de fer

Mar`tel` de fer"
Etymology
OF., hammer of iron.
Definitions
  1. A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.
Webster 1913