Petard

What do we mean by petard?

A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall. noun

A loud firecracker. noun

(be hoist with one's own petard) To be undone by one's own schemes. idiom

A small paper cartridge used in ornamental fireworks, generally at the end of a lance, so arranged that the flame terminates with an explosion. noun

An engine of war used to blow in a door or gate, form a From a breach in a wall, etc. noun

A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded. noun

A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to blow a hole in a door or wall. noun

Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense. noun

A loud firecracker. noun

To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard. verb

An explosive device used to break down a gate or wall noun

A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall.

Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.

A loud firecracker.

Words that are spelled similarly to petard:
petard, retard, petar, tetard, petary, peard, petare.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word petard:
spigot, paladin, hoist, breaching, destroyer, mortar, flotilla, convoy, escort, sank, submarine, sinking, alexandria, demolition, torpedo, bomb, hms, malta, depth, gates, charges, ship, guns, fired, tank, device, engaged, crew, charge, walls, damage, ships, ordered, japanese, navy, italian, launched, port, passed, german, type, attack, aircraft, officer, too, whose, men.

Words that rhyme with petard:
god, rod, facade, pod, fraud, broad, odd, nod, cod, elrod, squad, abroad, laud, sod, prod, quad, applaud, mod, unfettered, wad, plod, tod, braud, defraud, flawed, shod, trod, arthropod, awed, laude, tripod, roughshod, goldenrod, slipshod, esplanade, escalade, maraud, ramrod, baud, scrod, bawd, claud, claude, aud, fettered, cephalopod, thawed, maud, todd, backboard, strawed, maude, bettered, ballade, tightwad, lettered, belgrade, jawed, pernod, ipod, saud, brod, sawed, assad, riyadh, mossad, fahd, word of god, clawed, brachiopod, outlawed, novgorod, rashad, gnawed, plaud, riad, dodd, hot rod, chaud, cawed, codd, raad, baaed, chmod, lightning rod, pawed, seedpod, hawed, peapod, riyad, seesawed, schrod, act of god, chawed, abad, yawed, sprod, saad, penrod, cape cod.

Adjectives that are often used to describe petard:
own, damned, lighted, elaborate, philosophical, ideological, mine, rhetorical, submarine.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective petard:
reports.

Consonant match to petard:
pitted, petted, potted, pated, petered, patted, putid, pitied, putted, pouted, puttied, pattered, pottered, puttered, pittard, pat heard, pet id, pete heard, pitt heard.

Words that sound like petard:
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