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giant powder

noun

  1. dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.


giant powder

noun

  1. dynamite composed of trinitroglycerine absorbed in kieselguhr


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Word History and Origins

Origin of giant powder1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Example Sentences

We worked waist-deep in it part of the time, and thawed out every stick of giant-powder at the fire.

And men with axes and crowbars and giant powder were set to their tasks.

He can put more giant-powder into the English language without actually breaking any commandments than anybody I ever heard.

The threat always made Old Man Hinds jump like the close explosion of a stick of giant powder.

They had crowbars and they had cans of giant powder, which they had appropriated from a hardware store.

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