1. an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
2. a kind of firecracker.
—Idiom
3. hoist by or with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
Word History: In French, petard refers to "a loud discharge of intestinal gas."
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