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▪ I. petard, n.|pɪˈtɑːd, pɪˈtɑː(r)|
Also 7 petar, -arr(e, -arh, -arde, -arra, patar, pettar, pittar, -ard.
[a. F. pétard, † -art, pl. -ars (1580 in Littré) (= It. petardo (Florio 1598); obs. Sp. petar ‘a kinde of Artillery to batter, lately invented’ (Minsheu 1599), mod.Sp. petardo), f. péter to break wind, f. pet: see pet n.3 and -ard.]
1. A small engine of war used to blow in a door or gate, or to make a breach in a wall, etc.; originally of metal and bell-shaped, later a cubical wooden box, charged with powder, and fired by a fuse. (Now Hist.)
1598Florio, Petardo, a squib or petard of gun powder vsed to burst vp gates or doores with. 1604Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 207 (2nd Quarto) For tis the sport to haue the enginer Hoist with his owne petar. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iv. v, He has made a petarde of an old brasse pot, to force your dore. 1611Cotgr., Petart, a Petard, or Petarre; an Engine (made like a Bell, or Morter) wherewith strong gates are burst open. 1614Camden Rem. (ed. 2) 241 Petronils, Pistoll, Dagge, &c. and Petarras of the same brood lately inuented. 1627Drayton Agincourt xxxviii, The Engineer providing the Petar [rimes are, far] To breake the strong Percullice. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 511 The noblemen, with a pittard brake up the utter gate of the Castle of Edinburgh. 1670Cotton Espernon Table, Montereau Faut-Yonne taken by Petarr. 1721De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 113 By the help of a petard, we broke open the gate. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 322 A third had defended his old house till Fairfax had blown in the door with a petard.
b. fig. (See also hoise v. 2 b.)
1639Massinger Unnat. Combat i. i, Give but fire To this petard, it shall blow open, madam, The iron doors of a judge. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. ii. 364 His very name being a Petrard to make all the city-gates fly open. 1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 745 Eternal Noise and Scolding. The Conjugal Petard, that tears Down all Portcullices of Ears. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 133, I never saw such a petard of a man.
2. A kind of firework that explodes with a loud report; a cracker.
[1611Cotgr., Petard, as Petart; also, a Squib.] 1668J. White Rich Cab. (ed. 4) 111 Standing launces are commonly made with hollow wood, to contain sundry petards or rockets. 1884St. James' Gaz. 25 July 4/2 Fusees, petards, and crackers, fired off unintermittingly..form an indispensable accompaniment of a festive occasion in China.
†3. ? Some kind of cheating at dice. Obs.
1662J. Wilson Cheats iv. i. (1664) 46 Did not I..teach you..the use of Up-hills, Down-hills, and Petarrs?.. And, generally, instructed you from Prick-penny, to Long Lawrence?
▪ II. peˈtard, v.
Also 7 petar, -arre.
[a. F. pétarder (1603 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. pétard n.: see prec.]
†1. trans. To blow open, or make a breach in, with a petard. Obs.
1603Florio Montaigne i. lvi. (1632) 176 To scale a Castle,..to pettard a gate. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1307 They resolved to petarde the Castle. 1670Cotton Espernon ii. v. 201 To Petarre one of the Gates of the City.
†b. transf. Obs.
1654Z. Coke Logick Pref., The prayers of the Saints ascending with you, will Petarr your entrances through heavens Portcullis.
2. intr. To fire off petards (sense 2). rare.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. ix, A ‘wicker Figure’..is promenaded..then solemnly consumed by fire..with such petarding and huzzaing. |