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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