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"ref": "1915 April 23, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37",
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"roman": "porýv vétra",
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"text": "many tons of iron were melted at a blast",
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"ref": "1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 146",
"text": "Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.",
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"The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace."
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"The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast."
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"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion",
"text": "Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.",
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"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43",
"text": "Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.",
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"An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc."
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"word": "պայթյուն"
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"tags": [
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"sense": "explosion",
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"tags": [
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"word": "έκρηξη"
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{
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"singular"
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"text": "Blast right through it.",
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