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Tamp

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

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Compact 76% connected

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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Compress 76% connected

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

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Tool 76% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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Stemmer 76% connected

One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

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Tamper 74% connected

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Tamper 74% connected

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

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Pack 92% connected

A pact.

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Tamper 92% connected

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Arenaceous adjective · 78% connection

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: blasting, plug, clay, earth, sand.
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Argil noun · 78% connection

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

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Armature noun · 78% connection

A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and…

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Bobbin noun · 78% connection

A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its len…

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Burrow verb · 78% connection

To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.

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Clayey adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

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Coercion noun · 78% connection

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

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Coriolis force noun · 78% connection

(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…

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Drawbore noun · 78% connection

A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the sh…

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Dugout noun · 78% connection

a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed in…

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Earth noun · 78% connection

The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, includin…

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Feather noun · 78% connection

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

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Fluke noun · 78% connection

An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

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Fulgurite noun · 78% connection

A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a li…

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Imbed verb · 78% connection

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

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Kaoline noun · 78% connection

A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain…

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Layer noun · 78% connection

That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a…

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Mine verb · 78% connection

To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; t…

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