gelignite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gelignite
Example Sentences
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"Graham, a compact parcel of Scouse gelignite, doesn't tend to play softies, so his simmering aggression felt all too credible."
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2019
For some time, British police had feared that increasing thefts of gelignite from military storehouses forecast an epidemic of bank robberies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work.
From Time Magazine Archive
Searchers crawled through the Victorian sewers beneath the square to make sure that the Libyans had not disposed of gelignite they were thought to possess by flushing it down a toilet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The various gelatine compounds, gelignite, gelatine dynamite, and blasting gelatine, are manufactured in exactly the same way.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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