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Definition: Petard |
PetardNoun1. A explosive device used to break down a gate or wall. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "petard" was first used: 1598. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder. |
Failure | Stultified, befooled, dished, hoist on one's own petard; victimized, sacrificed. |
Retaliation | Serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It remains in modern usage in the phrase to be hoist by one's own petard, which means to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else. Shakespeare used the proverbial phrase in Hamlet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Petard."
Crosswords: Petard |
| English words defined with "petard": Madrier ♦ Petar, Petardier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "petard": Petard'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "petard": Petar. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Petard" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (petard). |
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| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard. |
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| "Petard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Petard" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "petard": be hoist on one's own petard ♦ be hoist with one's own petard ♦ hoist with one's own petard. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
petard | 23 |
hoist petard | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "petard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | llokum dinamiti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид фойерверк (flip flap), мина (caisson, diggings, land mine, mine, work), петарда (detonator, torpedo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | petarda (banger, crackers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکجورترقه , بمب دیوارکن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pétard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | petarde, Sprenggefäß. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρηξίπυλο, συσκευή με εκρηκτικάσ ύλασ προσ κατεδάφισιν φρουρίων, βαρελότο (cracker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | petárda (cartridge, cracker, maroon, squib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | petasan (squib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | petardo (cracker, firecracker, maroon, squib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etardpay pétala (petal). (various references) petardã (fire cracker, maroon, squib). (various references) петарда (detonator, firecracker, squib, torpedo). (various references) petarda (firecracker). (various references) petardo (banger, cracker, firecracker, fireworks, maroon, thunderflash). (various references) petard, svärmare (dreamer, enthusiast, hawk moth, squib, zealot). (various references) โดนกรรมสนอง (hoist with one's own petard). (various references) kale duvarını yıkma aleti. (various references) хлопавка (cracker, flapper, fly-flap, slapstick), петарда (detonator, spitdevil, squib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | pet. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "petard": petards. (additional references) | |
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"Petard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Papard, Patar, Patara, patard, Pataudi, payard, peard, peatry, pedabro, pentar, pertard, petara, Petardia, petartd, Petcare, petra, pettard, Picarda, pitar, pitard, pitarda, pittard, Potard, potare, ptard, Pypard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "petard" (pronounced pe"terd or putÄ"d) |
| 4 | -e" t er d | bettered, fettered, lettered, unfettered. |
| 3 | -t er d | administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, battered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, cluttered, countered, cratered, custard, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, filibustered, filtered, flattered, flustered, fluttered, fostered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, littered, martyred, mastered, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, muttered, neutered, pattered, pestered, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, scattered, sequestered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
| 3 | -t Ä" d | Tod. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: depart, parted, prated. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: adept, apter, dater, derat, drape, padre, pared, pated, pater, peart, prate, raped, rated, taped, taper, tared, trade, tread. | |
-2 letters: aped, aper, dare, dart, date, dear, drat, pard, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, pert, prat, rape, rapt, rate, read, reap, tape, tare, tarp, tear, tepa, trad, trap. | |
-3 letters: ape, apt, are, art, ate, dap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: adapter, adepter, adopter, departs, diptera, partied, petards, pirated, predate, readapt, readopt, retaped, tapered, tramped, trapped, updater, uprated. | |
+2 letters: adapters, adopters, biparted, captured, carpeted, departed, departee, depurate, dipteral, dipteran, eupatrid, imparted, operated, paltered, parented, pargeted, parroted, pastored, pastured, pattered, pedantry, pederast, picrated, portaged, portaled, prattled, preacted, preadapt, preadmit, preadopt, preadult, preaudit, predated, predates, predator, pretaped, probated, pronated, prorated, rapidest, raptured, readapts, readopts, repasted, repeated, replated, strapped, tampered, tapadera, tapadero, teardrop, tetrapod, threaped, traipsed, trampled, trapesed, tripedal, unparted, updarted, updaters, upstared. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 74 61 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . - .- .-. -.. |
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