giant powder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of giant powder
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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I sense there is a giant powder field that no one has touched yet, and I am going after it.
From Forbes ● Nov. 2, 2011
"It's a giant powder, a million times stronger nor mine."
From In Old Kentucky by Edward Marshall
They tunnelled the hillside in all directions over the section which they desired to move, and in these tunnels laid mines of giant powder or dynamite.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
Somehow the thought of human agency obtrudes itself in connection with the word ``explosion,'' and we smile at the idea that giant powder or nitro-glycerine could blow up a planet.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss
Boulders were rolled down from the mountain-side, hurled into the bottom of the cañon by blasts of giant powder and dynamite, gripped with rapidly adjusted log-chains, and dragged to their places by straining horses.
From Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory
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