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Definition of Petard
1. Noun. An explosive device used to break down a gate or wall.
Definition of Petard
1. n. A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.
Definition of Petard
1. Noun. (historical) A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to blow a hole in a door or wall. ¹
2. Noun. Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense. ¹
3. Noun. (rare) A loud firecracker. ¹
4. Verb. (context: now rare archaic) To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petard
1. an explosive device [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petard
Literary usage of Petard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"THE PINNACE AND THE petard. that the fowls and the monkey were as -*- lively as
ever next morning, we set eagerly to work to bake for ourselves, ..."
2. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1862)
"CRB Pint« I. petard.*—The petard, which formerly was part of the equipment of an
army in the field, for the purpose of bursting open gates, ..."
3. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"petarde [c] petard; cracker. Peter Peter. Petersborg St. Petersburgh.
Petit [c] [typograf.] brevier. Petersilie [c] parsley. Petroleum [n] petroleum ..."
4. The Truth about Port Arthur by E. K. Nozhin, Alexander Bertram Lindsay (1908)
"STOSSEL HOIST BY HIS OWN petard [CHAP.XXII. even in defiance of orders, there
was reason to suspect that one victory over the enemy would have reinstated ..."
5. The Economics of Mining by Herbert Hoover, R. Gilman Brown (1907)
"HOIST BY HIS OWN petard (Editorial, April 27, 1905) A SPASM of exactitude has
swept across the mining world; " ore-reserves " has become a term of dreaded ..."
6. The Economics of Mining by Herbert Hoover, R. Gilman Brown (1907)
"HOIST BY HIS OWN petard (Editorial, April 27, 1905) A SPASM of exactitude has
swept across the mining world; "ore-reserves" has become a term of dreaded ..."
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