giant powder
dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
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How to use giant powder in a sentence
We worked waist-deep in it part of the time, and thawed out every stick of giant-powder at the fire.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossAnd men with axes and crowbars and giant powder were set to their tasks.
Under Handicap | Jackson GregoryHe can put more giant-powder into the English language without actually breaking any commandments than anybody I ever heard.
Mrs. Red Pepper | Grace S. RichmondThe threat always made Old Man Hinds jump like the close explosion of a stick of giant powder.
The Man from the Bitter Roots | Caroline LockhartThey had crowbars and they had cans of giant powder, which they had appropriated from a hardware store.
The Rustlers of Pecos County | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for giant powder
dynamite composed of trinitroglycerine absorbed in kieselguhr
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