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n. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.

n. A loud firecracker.

n. A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to blow a hole in a door or wall.

n. Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.

n. A loud firecracker.

v. To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard.

n. 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 It has been superseded.

n. An engine of war used to blow in a door or gate, form a From a breach in a wall, etc.

n. A small paper cartridge used in ornamental fireworks, generally at the end of a lance, so arranged that the flame terminates with an explosion.

n. an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall

"She had meant to try out Jasper's racing-car at dawn, forgetting that racers have no mufflers, and she had been, as one may say, hoist with her own petard – although I do not know what a petard is and have never been able to find out."

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hoist with one's own petard   

hoist by one's own petard   

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