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
He'll have some detonators lying loose, too—I've heard he uses giant powder.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
Some hundred yards west of the cabin was the mouth of a tunnel into which we had drifted with pick, shovel and giant powder, a distance of 300 feet in five months of hard toil.
From Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew by Robert McReynolds
He was in the North, where winter would soon begin, doing her work with drill and giant powder.
From The Lure of the North by Harold Bindloss
The rivermen, gathering close, saw that the bundle around the end of the sapling consisted of a dozen rolls of giant powder from which dangled a short fuse.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
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