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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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Tamping :: Tamping (n.) The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine..

Rendrock :: Rendrock (n.) A kind of dynamite used in blasting.

Tamper :: Tamper (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed..

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

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

Powder :: Powder (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder..

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