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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Dynamite

(3 syl.). An explosive compound consisting of some absorbent (as infusorial earth) saturated with nitroglycerine. (Greek, dunamis, power.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Dynamite Saturday
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