coillard

1) From Old French ‘coillart’, a word meaning ram.

1297 ‘a stray coyllard is in John Pollard’s custody’, Wakefield. The sole reference to this word in the OED is for 1489 where it was clearly a warlike engine, perhaps a battering ram originally. Godefroy has both meanings.

places Wakefield
dates 1297

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