burster
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Origin of burster
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But life is not so easy for a hopeful chest burster, as I had occasion to learn when I was distracted by other projects and my wasp colony almost died out.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 16, 2021
Roughly two feet long and weighing more than 90 pounds, each is an aerodynamic steel vessel with a burster tube in its center.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2014
I have seen it rain hard in a good many places, but am sure I never saw it rain harder than it did at the end of that southerly burster.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Thomas Wallace Knox
We will listen to Harry as he described in his journal their experience with a southerly burster.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Thomas Wallace Knox
He can mill you, or throw you a burster; feint, parry, duck, counter, or stop!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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