stumping powder

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

low-percentage dynamite used to uproot stumps.

Quotations

1930

[Advert.] Polar Stumping Powder plays a big part in British Columbia's great logging camps.

1942

He's given me an idea of how you estimate the number of sticks of stumping powder you need to blow up a certain-sized stump.

1961

"She--she shore was mad--she . . . went up like stumpin' powder."