giant powder


noun
  1. dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.

Origin of giant powder

1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Words Nearby giant powder

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How to use giant powder in a sentence

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

    The Gold Trail | Harold Bindloss
  • And men with axes and crowbars and giant powder were set to their tasks.

    Under Handicap | Jackson Gregory
  • He can put more giant-powder into the English language without actually breaking any commandments than anybody I ever heard.

    Mrs. Red Pepper | Grace S. Richmond
  • The threat always made Old Man Hinds jump like the close explosion of a stick of giant powder.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots | Caroline Lockhart
  • They had crowbars and they had cans of giant powder, which they had appropriated from a hardware store.

British Dictionary definitions for giant powder

giant powder

noun
  1. dynamite composed of trinitroglycerine absorbed in kieselguhr

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