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Hoist by your own petard - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... A petard is, or rather was, as they have long since fallen out of use, a small engine of war used to blow breaches in gates or walls. They were originally metallic and bell-shaped but later cubical wooden boxes.
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"Hoist by my own petard"--everybody says it, and so do I. But neither I, nor anyone else I've ever heard employ this particular cliche, has the slightest idea of what a "petard" is. ... The one plausible explanation I've come across holds that a petard was a sort of 19th-century animal trap, a rope and a bent...
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petard - 10 definitions - A nasty and insulting word for members of PETA, an animal-rights terrorist organization. They are usually destroying prop... ... buy petard mugs, tshirts and magnets...
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Petard - Definition of Petard at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Petard. Look it up now! ... hoist by or with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
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A petard (see under "peter out" for the etymology) was an explosive charge detonated by a slowly burning fuse. If the petard went off prematurely, then the sapper (military engineer; Shakespeare's "enginer") who planted it would be hurled into the air by the explosion.
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She was launched as HMS PETARD on 27th March 1941 as the 2nd RN ship to bear the name, previously used by a WW1 destroyer sold in 1921. Her build was completed on 15th June 1942 at a cost of £408,200 excluding the cost of guns and communications equipment supplied by the Admiralty.
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The story behind the Weird Word 'petard'. ... A petard was a bell-shaped metal grenade typically filled with five or six pounds of gunpowder and set off by a fuse. Sappers dug a tunnel or covered trench up to a building and fixed the device to a door, barricade, drawbridge or the like to break it open.
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