Meaning of Petard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall.
   historical
3. Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.
4. A loud firecracker.
   rare

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Examples

“For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]”

For it's amusing to have the engineer / Hoisted into the sky with his own explosive, and if I'm lucky / I will dig one yard below their mines, / And blow them towards the Moon: […]

“[…] Pipes, who acted as the enemy's forlorn hope⟳, advanced to the gate with great intrepidity, and clapping his foot to the door, which was none of the ſtouteſt, with the execution and diſpatch of a petard, ſplit it into a thouſand pieces.”

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