Definition for PE-TARD'

PE-TARD', n. [It. and Sp. petardo; Fr. petard.]

An engine of war made of metal, nearly in the shape of a hat, to be loaded with powder and fixed on a madrier or plank, and used to break gates, barricades, draw-bridges and the like by explosion. – Encyc.

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