-
dangerous hobby in Malta—are
called petards (the word in Maltese, murtal, is
related to "mortar").
These petards are
detonated by the
dozen during feasts...
- "
Petarded" is the
sixth episode of the
fourth season of the
American animated television series Family Guy. It
originally aired on Fox in the
United States...
- "Hoist with his own
petard" is a
phrase from a
speech in
William Shakespeare's play
Hamlet that has
become proverbial. The phrase's
meaning is that a bomb-maker...
-
petard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
petard was a
medieval small bomb used to blow up
gates and
walls when
breaching fortifications.
Petard may...
- Paul
Pétard (1912–1980) was a
French botanist who
specialized in the
study of
native plants of
French Polynesia. His 1986 book
Quelques plantes utiles...
- HMS
Petard,
after the
petard, a type of bomb: HMS
Petard (1916) was an
Admiralty M-class
destroyer launched in 1916 and sold in 1921. HMS
Petard (G56)...
- HMS
Petard was a P-class
destroyer of the
British Royal Navy that saw
service during the
Second World War. She was one of only
three P-class ships, out...
-
surveillance and
speed limit enforcement systems produced by UK-based
Petards Group. It was
originally developed in 1986 by
Danish company JAI A/S. Its...
- use of a
torch or slow match.
Saucissons were used to fire foug****es,
petards,
mines and camouflets. Very long
fascines were also
called saucissons.[citation...
- artillerymen, and
soldiers to
ignite matchlock muskets, cannons, s****, and
petards. Slow
matches were most
suitable for use
around black-powder
weapons because...
