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The fusillade to protect his retreat began and as he went, keeping low, he dragged with him the spool of wire to be connected to the detonator.
The ejection charge initiates the delay detonator and propels the steel ball upward to 4-6 feet above the surface.
The real detonator for the Irish economic miracle is the country's demography.
Troy grimly thumbed the detonator as a trio of eager gunrunners raced forward with what looked like shaped charges of plastique.
It is understood a detonator on the device went off but the main package did not explode.
As the camera zooms it, the object is revealed to be a detonator for an explosive device.
At his instance the police also recovered a detonator and a piece of fuse wire from his house.
Known by railroad men simply as a torpedo, this is a small detonator fastened to the rail and set off by a locomotive's passing wheels.
Quickly, he stuck a blasting cap and remote detonator in the middle of the putty, and tossed it underhand inside of a box of ammunition.
In 1915 a Belgian company designed a grenade which contained a spring-loaded striker, percussion cap, fuse and detonator.
That night as Jordan slept, Pablo stole and destroyed the exploder, detonator and blasting caps from Jordan's pack, then disappeared.
It's like watching two kids in a sandpit, armed with claymore mines and chewing on detonator caps.
In Singapore, a police spokesman said Thursday the letter, which was written in Burmese, contained a low-grade bomb detonator.
They were held after a rifle, two handguns, ammunition and a bomb detonator were discovered at a house Lurgan, Co Armagh.
The car's 250 kilograms of plastic explosives, with a powerful limpet mine attached as a detonator, was defused, Smith said.
He had separated the fuse and the detonator from the plastic explosive.
The suicide jacket is essentially a bomb kit worn as a waistcoat next to the skin, fashioned from canvas and with plastic explosives and a detonator secreted in four pockets.
Audible signals are principally the locomotive whistle and the detonator.
Moroccan officials believe that the cellular telephone detonator used in the bombings was developed here.
As all such cluster munitions contain an integral detonator, they may already be stored separately from other ammunition.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In point of fact, the charge is set with an interrupter detonator which will explode as soon at the power line is severed.
Fernald pressed the detonator of the star shell, tossing it into the air as he did so.
He knows that you are chained close to the explosive and that it is rigged with a detonator, connected with the power line.
The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket.
Then we can park the jeep off the road next to the detonator.
But this is only a single barrel, and an old-fashioned sort of detonator.
The instant he brought the wires in contact, the detonator went off.
This ignition fired a detonator, which in turn fired the dynamite.
A police official told local media that four explosive packets were without detonators and were not been assembled into a bomb while one bag connected with a detonator.
So we bit the detonator down for him, shoved in a fuse, and picked him a good fire-stick, while he jolted up with a couple more stiff ones of gin.
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