Definition of Petards. Meaning of Petards. Synonyms of Petards

- 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 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...
- 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)...
- The Joint Brothers or Les Frères Pétard is a French film directed by Hervé Palud released in 1986. Gérard Lanvin : Manu Jacques Villeret : Momo Josiane...
- 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...
- American Mathematical Monthly under the pseudonym H. Pétard (referring to Hamlet's "hoist by his own petard"). The paper offers short spoofs of theorems and...