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Wat (wie) is PETARD - definitie

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P tard; Petards; Petard mortar
  • A 19th-century British army petard (in center, projecting from the copper circle), mounted on a [[madrier]], with braces
  • A petard, from a seventeenth-century manuscript of military designs
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petard         
[p?'t?:d]
¦ noun historical a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder.
?a kind of firework that explodes with a sharp report.
Phrases
hoist with (or by) one's own petard having one's schemes against others backfiring on one.
Origin
C16: from Fr. petard, from peter 'break wind'.
petard         
(petards)
If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own petard or hoist by their own petard, their plan in fact results in harm to themselves.
The students were hoist by their own petards, however, as Granada decided to transmit the programme anyway.
PHRASE: N inflects
Petard         
·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 It has been superseded.

Wikipedia

Petard

A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications, originally invented in France in 1579. A typical petard was a conical or rectangular metal device containing 5–6 pounds (2–3 kg) of gunpowder, with a slow match for a fuse.

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor PETARD
1. Ministers may yet be hoist with their own petard.
2. No matter, when Prescott‘s hanging himself from his own ‘sleazey‘ petard!
3. Stephen Alambritis, of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "They have been hoisted by their own petard.
4. No one was injured in the fire, which engulfed an eight–story apartment on the city‘s outskirts after a stray petard blew up on a balcony, Interfax said.
5. Now Livingstone seems hoist with his own petard a phrase that derives, entirely appropriately, from the old French for being blown up by your own fart.