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giant powder
noun
- dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
giant powder
noun
- 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.
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And men with axes and crowbars and giant powder were set to their tasks.
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He can put more giant-powder into the English language without actually breaking any commandments than anybody I ever heard.
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The threat always made Old Man Hinds jump like the close explosion of a stick of giant powder.
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They had crowbars and they had cans of giant powder, which they had appropriated from a hardware store.
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