petard
Medieval siege explosive
A petard was a small bomb used in early modern warfare to blow open gates and walls.
The device is now remembered almost exclusively through the phrase hoist with one's own petard—injured by one's own weapon, undone by a scheme that backfires on its creator.
Raise with tackle
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- self-sabotageUndermining your own goals
- boomerangSelf-returning thrown weapon
backfire · blunder · overreach · miscalculation · hubris · pitfall · trap · snare
Military construction soldier
- breachBreaking of agreement
- fortificationStrengthening defenses or nutrients
- bastionFortified defensive position
- rampartFortified defensive wall
parapet · battlement · gate · wall · castle · assault · engineer · demolition
Explosive device or disaster
- grenadeHandheld thrown explosive
- dynamitePowerful blasting compound
- detonatorExplosive initiation device
- fuseProtective melting wire
charge · TNT · gunpowder · blasting · demolition · shrapnel · mine · ordnance
Of the Stratford playwright
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
historical · Renaissance · theatrical · literary · quotation · proverb · saying · expression
hoist
Raise with tackle
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- self-sabotageUndermining your own goals
boomerang · backfire · blunder · overreach · miscalculation · hubris · pitfall · trap · snare · scheme
sapper
Military construction soldier
- breachBreaking of agreement
- fortificationStrengthening defenses or nutrients
- bastionFortified defensive position
rampart · parapet · battlement · gate · wall · castle · assault · engineer · demolition · mining
bomb
Explosive device or disaster
- grenadeHandheld thrown explosive
- dynamitePowerful blasting compound
- detonatorExplosive initiation device
fuse · charge · TNT · gunpowder · blasting · demolition · shrapnel · mine · ordnance · incendiary
Shakespearean
Of the Stratford playwright
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- obsoleteNo longer in use
antiquated · historical · Renaissance · theatrical · literary · quotation · proverb · saying · expression
- historical weaponsmusket, muskets, flintlock, flintlocks, pistols
- historical warfaremusket, bayonet, cannon, flintlock, cavalry
- Military HardwareMirage, frigate, destroyer, submarine, howitzer
- siege weaponscatapult, trebuchet, ballista, mangonel, onager
- siegessiege, siege tower, siege engine, siege engines, siege warfare
- Explosivesbomb, dynamite, grenade, TNT, C-4
petardfortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
bulwark · rampart · defensive wall · bastion · barricade
petardtriumph
Resounding, celebrated victory
victory · masterstroke · coup · checkmate
- hoist by one's own petardHarmed by own plot
- hoisted by one's own petardHarmed by own plot
- hoisted on one's own petardHarmed by own scheme
- hoist with one's own petardHarmed by own scheme
- hoisted with one's own petardHarmed by own scheme
- hoist on one's own petardHarmed by own plan