Crossword-Solution: CORDITE
We have 13 clues for the answer “CORDITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A smokeless explosive | 1 answer |
| Bullet propellant | 1 answer |
| Potent powder | 1 answer |
| Propellant developed to replace gunpowder | 1 answer |
| Slow-burning explosive | 1 answer |
| Smokeless explosive | 1 answer |
| Smokeless gunpowder. | 1 answer |
| smokeless powder | 2 answers |
| Explosive powder | 2 answers |
| Gunpowder alternative | 5 answers |
| propellant | 30 answers |
| ORGANIC compounds, substance of | 37 answers |
| Explosive | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CORDITE (5)
With ears singing from the deafening report of the pistol in the confined space, with the acrid smell of cordite in his nostrils, Desmond leapt at Mortimer’s throat, hoping to bear him to the ground before he could shoot again.
They contain neither dynamite, nor cordite, nor anything of the kind, yet, given a fair field and no favour, they’ll work more mischief than all the explosives man has fashioned.
And then lost it all the same: on cordite, on drink, on Chinese labor in South Africa, on all sorts of trumpery.
The former smokeless powder, containing a large percentage of nitro-glycerine such as "cordite," produced such an effect that the guns were used up and practically worthless, after firing fifty to sixty rounds.
Steam, steel, the ironclad, the super-Dreadnought and the devastating cordite gun were still in the womb of the future; but the keels of a newer fleet were nevertheless already on the slips, and with the old order the press-gang, now for ever obsolete, went the way of all things useless.
Quotes with CORDITE (1)
The bullets are gun-eggs,” Collingswood said to Baron, looking at Vardy. Farmers squeezing their holy metal beasts to percussive climax, fertilisation by cordite expulsion, violent ovipositors. Seeking warm places full of nutrients, protecting baby guns deep in the bone cages, until they hatched.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1956–2019).