picard

Inherited from Middle English picard. Doublet of Picard.

picard (plural picards)

1. (historical, nautical) A type of light, seaworthy vessel used in trade and the transport of fish in Britain and Ireland in the late medieval and early modern period.
   • 1933, E. M. Carus Wilson, “The Overseas Trade of Bristol”, in Eileen Power, M. M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, page 239:

     Others, used commonly as fishing boats and in trade with Ireland, were “picards”, named often in the Tolsey Court books as pledges for debts, and worth about £8.

   • 1947, Dorothy Burwash, English Merchant Shipping, 1460–1540‎^[1]:

     Irish picards were noted as leaving Bridgewater or Minehead one day with small cargoes of salt or victuals, and returning the next or even the same day with loads of fish.

   • 2015, Ian Friel, Henry V’s Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest, 1413–1422‎^[2], →ISBN:

     Picards were very small. They were sailing lighters of some kind, primarily used to carry the catches from fishing boats at sea to port.

picard (feminine picarda, masculine plural picards, feminine plural picardes)

1. Picard (of, from or relating to Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France)

picard m (plural picards, feminine picarda, feminine plural picardes)

1. Picard (native or inhabitant of Picardy) (usually male)

picard m (uncountable)

1. Picard (language)

• Picardia

• “picard”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “picard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “picard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “picard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French picard, from Old French picart, pikart, pickart. By surface analysis, pic +‎ -ard. Compare English pike.

• IPA^(key): /pi.kaʁ/

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• Homophone: picards

picard (feminine picarde, masculine plural picards, feminine plural picardes)

1. Picard (of, from or relating to Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France)

picard m (uncountable)

1. Picard (language)

• “picard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.