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Explosive charge   /ɪksplˈoʊsɪv tʃɑrdʒ/   Listen
Explosive charge

noun
1.
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.  Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, charge.






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"Explosive charge" Quotes from Famous Books



... side by side, and as before, Miles stayed a good twenty paces behind them. As they neared the light where they knew the explosive charge would be, Tom began ...
— Treachery in Outer Space • Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman

... "booby traps" to blow our men to bits if they knocked a wire, or stirred an old boot, or picked up a fountain-pen, or walked too often over a board where beneath acid was eating through a metal plate to a high-explosive charge. I little knew when I walked round the tower of the town hall of Bapaume that in another week, with the enemy far away, it would go up in dust and ashes. Only a few of our men were killed or blinded by these monkey-tricks. Our engineers found most of them ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs



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