petard
(noun) an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall
Source: WordNet® 3.1
petard (plural petards)
(historical) A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall.
Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense.
(now rare) A loud firecracker.
petard (third-person singular simple present petards, present participle petarding, simple past and past participle petarded)
(now rare, archaic) To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard.
• depart, detrap, drapet, parted, prated, rapted, tarped, traped
Source: Wiktionary
Pe*tard", n. Etym: [F. pétard, fr. péter to break wind, to crack, to explode, L. pedere, peditum.] (Mil.)
Definition: 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 It has been superseded.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 May 2025
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
