[Dixielandjazz] Definitions - was Band dress & festival attendance

[Stephen Barbone]

See what you started Dr. Hooks?  Petard has several definitions. among them,
the definition that Dixie describes below. But in addition, and in the context
of the original post, petard is also described as:"hoist with, or by one's own
petard" . . .  meaning "destroyed by the very device with which one meant to
destroy others"

If you do not have this definition in your dictionary, you need a better
dictionary in order to understand Charlie and/or William Buckley.

No doubt the eminent Dr. Hooks traces it's usage in the context above, back to
William Shakespear's brooding Danish Prince,  Hamlet.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

Dixie Teel wrote:

> According to my Merriman Webster home and office edition: Petard--N :  a
> case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall.
> I read that to mean Dr. Hooks is a body full of tnt ready to explode.
> Maybe I'd better find a bigger dictionary or a copy of the OED.  Or have I
> missed something?
> Dixie Teel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Barbone" <barbonestreet@earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:10 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Definitions - was Band dress & festival attendance
>
> > Charlie Hooks wrote about opinions & posts on the DJML and the question:
> >
> > > Are we hoisted on our own petards?
> >
> >
> > "Actually, quite an apt phrase in this context--but you'll have to get
> > Bill Gunter to define "petard" for you.  Or look it up in the OED for
> > yourself.
> >
> > helpfully?"
> >
> > List mates:
> >
> > Don't let Dr. Hooks (Ph.D.) get away with that. If anybody can define
> > "petard", he and William Buckley can. Not only is he a learned
> > academician in "English", but also a fine jazz musician and all around
> > wig. Wig meaning smart person, (New York City slang) not a member of the
> > Liberal Party in England, (Whig).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve Barbone
> >
> > PS. If he leaves the list., not only will I send all my posts to him as
> > Jim Beebe suggested but copies of the entire digest every day under
> > various return address names so he cannot block them with a spaminator
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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