Crossword-Solution: PETARD 6 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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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 It has been superseded.

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PETARD anagram DEPART, PARTED, PRATED

We have 49 clues for the answer “PETARD”

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Old demolition device 1 answer
Fortification-breaching bomb 1 answer
G. I. "pineapple." 1 answer
Gate-breaching bomb 1 answer
Hoist by his own ___. 1 answer
Hoist by one's own ___ 1 answer
Idiomatic hoister 1 answer
Kind of firecracker 1 answer
Loud firecracker 1 answer
Loud firework 1 answer
Noisy explosive 1 answer
Noisy firework 1 answer
Old bunker demolisher 1 answer
Explosive in a maritime metaphor 1 answer
Old demolition weapon 1 answer
Old explosive device 1 answer
Old explosive device used to breach castle walls 1 answer
Old gate crasher 1 answer
Old gate-crashing bomb 1 answer
Small bomb used for breaking down gates 1 answer
Small bomb, in a familiar idiom 1 answer
Something to be hoist by 1 answer
Something to be hoist with 1 answer
Something to hoist with? 1 answer
Variety of firecracker 1 answer
Explosive device used to break through walls 1 answer
" 'Tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own ___": Hamlet 1 answer
"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own ___": Hamlet 1 answer
"Hoist with his own __": Hamlet 1 answer
"Hoist with his own ___." 1 answer
A kind of firecracker. 1 answer
Aid in breaching castle walls 1 answer
An engine of war 1 answer
Besieger's bomb 1 answer
Castle-breaching explosive 1 answer
Early explosive device 1 answer
Early form of land mine. 1 answer
Early type of bomb 1 answer
Explosive cited in "Hamlet" 1 answer
Old bomb 3 answers
Hoisting device 5 answers
Firecracker 6 answers
EXPLOSIVE device 8 answers
A MECHANICAL OR ELECTRICAL EXPLOSIVE DEVICE OR A SMALL AMOUNT OF EXPLOSIVE 10 answers
A DEVICE WITH AN EXPLOSIVE THAT BURNS AT A LOW RATE AND WITH COLORED FLAMES 10 answers
A LIT FIRECRACKER 10 answers
Detonating device 10 answers
Firework? 12 answers
Engine 26 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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PETER soon began To see the failure of his plan, And then resolved (I quote the Bard) To “hoist him with his own petard.” Old PETER woke next day and dressed, Put on his coat, and shoes, and vest, His shirt and stock; _but could not find_ _His only pair of_—never mind! Old PETER was a decent man, And though he twigged his lady’s plan, Yet, hearing her approaching, he Resumed invisibility.
Fifty Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 2019
Let it work; For ’tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard, and ’t shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.
Hamlet William Shakespeare 1998
Some years ago, the foreign tea-merchants at a large port, in order to curb excessive charges, decided to hoist the Chinese tea-men, or sellers of tea, with their own petard.
The Civilization Of China Herbert A. Giles 2006
The Gates of the Town, under axe and petard, can make little resistance, to Leopold's Column or the other two.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle 2000
The King, looking into Kappel's face, into Kappel's clear story and the Warkotsch handwriting, needed only a few questions; and the fit orders, as to Warkotsch and Company, were soon given: dangerous engineers now fallen harmless, blown up by their own petard.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle 2000
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Used 62 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).