giant powder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of giant powder
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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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
The country had lost its appearance of loneliness, for we passed several parties of miners and heard the heavy booming of giant powder at intervals, and from various directions all through the day.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by Hartmann, George (Henry George August)
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 Serviss, Garrett Putman
Poor Drum, a man about fifty years old, lost his eyesight in a premature explosion of giant powder, in a quarry near Ocean View, on the 3rd of November 1895.
From By the Golden Gate by Carey, Joseph
An electric spark has touched off a charge of giant powder under the roadbed.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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