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Gunpowder :: Gunpowder (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting..

Rend :: Rend (v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting.

Blight :: Blight (n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

Reed :: Reed (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

Blasting :: Blasting (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts..

Spire :: Spire (n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery..

Blasting :: Blasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blas.

Tamp :: Tamp (v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected..

Stemmed :: Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole..

Blasting :: Blasting (n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause..

Fuse :: Fuse (n.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze..

Aiguille :: Aiguille (n.) An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

Herakline :: Herakline (n.) A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting..

Vigorite :: Vigorite (n.) An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.

Smift :: Smift (n.) A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse..

Carbunculation :: Carbunculation (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold..

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