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petar

petar is the obsolete form of petard.

Meaning of petard

Noun

petard (plural petards)

  1. (historical) A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall.
    • For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...
  2. Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.
  3. (rare) A loud firecracker.

See all 5 meanings of petard

Forms of petar

pluralpetars

Phrases with petar

Questions about petar

What is petar the obsolete form of?
Petar is the obsolete form of petard.

Words near petar in the dictionary

  1. petaops
  2. petaparsec
  3. petaparsecs
  4. petapixel
  5. petapixels
  6. petar
  7. petara
  8. petaras
  9. petarasite
  10. petard
  11. petarded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petar (page history and authors); petard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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