lydditen.
/ˈlɪdʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈlɪˌdaɪt/ A high explosive, chiefly composed of picric acid, and believed closely to resemble melinite n.1; used in the manufacture of explosive shells in England.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > explosive for use with firearms > specific
serpentine powder1497
musket powder1644
black powder1793
percussion powder1819
wood powder1870
musketry powder1876
Schultze gunpowder1881
sawdust-powder1883
cocoa powder1884
brown powder1886
melinite1886
lyddite1888
rifleite1891
nitro powder1892
turpinite1895
nitro1900
shimose1904
1888 I. of Wight County Press 3 Nov. 3/4 Armstrong and Co...bought the patent from..M. Turpin, who is now personally assisting in the manufacture of Lyddite, the English name for Melinite.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 7/1 The new Lyddite shell.
1901 Scotsman 14 Mar. 7/3 The power of Lyddite has been described by experts..as most destructive in a rocky country.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lydditev.
/ˈlɪdʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈlɪˌdaɪt/ rare.
transitive. To destroy, wreck, etc., by the explosion of lyddite.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst > blow up or explode
to blow away1523
blow1599
to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612
blast1758
to blow sky-high1823
dynamite1881
lyddite1906
1906 F. Campbell Dearlove 78 She was pleased they had not dynamited or lyddited him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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