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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pe•tard /pɪˈtɑrd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Militaryan explosive device once used in warfare.
Idioms- Idioms hoist by or with one's own petard, caught by the very device one had planned to use to hurt another:The candidate was hoist by his own petard when, after he made claims about his opponent's shady finances, his own tax returns showed irregularities.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pe•tard (pi tärd′),USA pronunciation n. - Militaryan explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- a kind of firecracker.
- Military(cap.) Also called Flying Dustbin. a British spigot mortar of World War II that fired a 40-pound (18 kg) finned bomb, designed to destroy pillboxes and other concrete obstacles.
- Idioms hoist by or with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
- Latin pēditum a breaking wind, origin, originally neuter of past participle of pēdere to break wind) + -ard -ard
- Middle French, equivalent. to pet(er) to break wind (derivative of pet
- 1590–1600
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: petard /pɪˈtɑːd/ n - (formerly) a device containing explosives used to breach a wall, doors, etc
- hoist with one's own petard ⇒ being the victim of one's own schemes
- a type of explosive firework
Etymology: 16th Century: from French: firework, from péter to break wind, from Latin pēdere |