| 单词 | powder mine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder mine powder mine n. a mine (mine n. 5) filled with gunpowder; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine petard1566 powder minea1639 fougade1643 bomb-chest1704 caisson1704 globe of compression1771 torpedo1786 fougasse1832 stifler1836 landmine1875 observation mine1886 egg1917 a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) v. i. 52 Like a swift Powder-Mine beneath the world, Up would I blow it. 1726 tr. G. Daniel Hist. France III. 181 This castle is the first place that was ever taken by a powder-mine. 1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 114 The explosion of powder-mines and artillery-parks naturally attracts every eye and ear. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvii. 275 Calm now, but a powder mine where he had been but a whiff of the tantrums. 2002 Business Hist. Rev. (Nexis) Summer 267 The public does not understand to what extent they are living over a powder mine. < as lemmas |
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