mitraille

grapeshot; dosh, dough (money)

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y-der.? Proto-Germanic *maitaną Proto-Germanic *mītǭ Old Dutch mitebor. Old French mite Old French mitailleder. French mitraille From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”), from Old Dutch mite (“something small”), from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”).