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exploder|ɛkˈspləʊdə(r)|
[f. explode + -er1.]
One who, or that which, explodes.
†1. One who rejects (a doctrine, etc.); one who denies the existence of (something). Obs.
1659H. More Immort. Soul (1662) 39 Mr. Hobbs, that confident Exploder of Immaterial Substances out of the world. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 17 [Some affirm that atheists do not exist, but] these so confident exploders of them are both unskilled in..antiquity, and unacquainted with the present age. 1681H. Hallywell Melampr. 3 This age hath produced too many confident Exploders of Immaterial Substances. a1716South Serm. (1737) VI. vii. 276 Scandalous exploders of the doctrine of passive obedience.
2. One who refutes a theory, etc.
1863J. Brown Horæ Subs. (1882) 320 Mighty expiscators and exploders of myths.
3. Something which bursts with a loud noise.
1858Greener Gunnery 238 Things..called guns. Pocket volcanoes would be a fitter title, or portable exploders.
4. That which causes explosion; a contrivance for exploding gunpowder, etc.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 853/2 The gun..has..the needle-exploder and bolt breech. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. VI. 359 For mining, electric fuses are used, called also exploders. 1884A. G. Hake Chinese Gordon x. 254 Firing a gun 150 yards off with a magnetic exploder. |