| 单词 | mammoth powder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmammoth powder mammoth powder n. now historical a coarse-grained type of gunpowder. ΚΠ 1863 S. Stansbury Let. 5 Sept. in F. Vandiver Confed. Blockade Running Bermuda (1947) 93 I think a considerable portion of it should be ‘Mammoth Powder’—for heavy guns. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1040/2 For very heavy ordnance a much larger grained powder..called mammoth powder, was introduced by the late General T. J. Rodman. < as lemmas |
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