Meaning & use
Petards
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Small bombs or explosive devices historically used to blow open gates, walls, or other barriers.
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Sappers used petards to breach the fortress gate before the assault.
The old engineering manual described how petards were packed and detonated.
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Immortalized in Shakespeare's phrase 'hoist with his own petard', meaning to be harmed by one's own scheme, from Hamlet.
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