EXPLOSIVE CHARGE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Explosive charge

... 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