arquebusier, n.m., arquebusier, musketeer; gunsmith.
arquer, v.a.n., to bend, to curve, to arch, to crook.
arrachement (-rash-mān), n.m., tearing up, away, pulling up or out, rooting up or out, clearing away, drawing, extraction; (arch.) toothing.
d’arrache-pied, adv., without intermission, incessantly.
arracher, v.a., to force from, out of, away from, off; to pull away; to drag, to draw, to lug away; to extort; to snatch from, to wrest, to wring; to extract (teeth); to wring (tears); to tear out, down; to wrest; to grub up. — de mauvaises herbes; to grub up weeds. — un secret à quelqu’un; to get a secret out of any one.
s’arracher, v.r., to tear; to tear away, off; to get away; to break away. S’— les cheveux; to tear one’s hair. On se l’arrache; he or she is all the rage; there is a great run upon it.
arracheur, n.m., drawer. — de dents; tooth-drawer. — de cors; corn-cutter. Mentir comme un — de dents; to lie unblushingly, or like an epitaph.
arracheuse, n.f., (hat-making) picker.
arrachis, n.m., plant rooted up; fraudulent rooting up of young trees.
arrachoir, n.m., rooter, digger.