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petard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | explosive device |
Examples of petard
petard
Often he lets booze dons hoist themselves on the petard of their own silliness.
From the sfgate.com
I was glad to be done with it, and I was hoisted on my own intellectual petard.
From the washingtonpost.com
I feel like a fish out of water but let's hoist dating sites with its own petard.
From the iftomm2003.com
The pro-wall activists, say the settlers, have been hoist on their own petard.
From the economist.com
So let him get explicitly racist and he will then be hoist by his own petard.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Republicans, meanwhile, have been hoisted with their own deeply cynical petard.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Key is, of course, not the first Prime Minister to be hoist on his or her own petard.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Over the last week, Phil Falcone's LightSquared has appeared to fall on its own petard.
From the forbes.com
Still, I think Blair is very much hoist on his own petard with this one.
From the theatlantic.com
- An explosive device used to break down a gate or wall
- A petard was a small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. The term has a French origin and dates back to the sixteenth century. ...
- "Petarded" is the sixth episode of Fox's fourth season of Family Guy, which originally broadcast in the United States on June 19, 2005. It was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Seth Kearsley. ...
- A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to blow a hole in a door or wall; Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense; A loud firecracker; To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard
- An explosive, bell-shaped device that was fixed manually to a gate or door to blast a hole through it during a siege.
- Explosive device placed against a castle tower or gate.
