Words / 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge / P / Petard
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Petard, a cone-shaped explosive machine for bursting open gates, barriers, &c., made of iron and filled with powder and ball.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Petard in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable