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
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 Gregory, Jackson
Ten minutes after it had rolled forth upon the trestle at the "lower crossing" the giant powder had been transferred to poling-boats and the long pull against the current had begun.
From The Iron Trail by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
I must know when we'll get those drills and the giant powder before I sleep.
From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold
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
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