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POWDER CARRIER

Specialty Definition: POWDER CARRIER

DomainDefinition

Mining

See:powder monkey. (references)

Occupations

Assists BLASTER (any industry) in placing and detonating explosives used to loosen earth and rock, performing any combination of following tasks: Carries explosive bags, cartridges, or powder to blasting area and deposits explosive device in previously drilled holes as directed. Shovels earth or drill cuttings into holes after placement of charge and tamps earth to confine and increase force of detonation, using shovel or pole. Connects explosive cord to blasting cap and lead wire to firing device, or attaches fuse to charge. Fires charge on signal from BLASTER (any industry). Performs other duties as described under HELPER (any industry) Master Title. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: POWDER CARRIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-o-p-r-r-r-r-w"

-4 letters: prerecord, recarried.

-5 letters: airpower, drearier, powderer, preorder, rapiered, rareripe, recopied, recorder, redrawer, repaired, repairer, repriced, rerecord, rereward, rewarder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POWDER CARRIER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 57 44 45 52      43 41 52 52 49 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010111 01000100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010010 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#87 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#82 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0057 0044 0045 0052      0043 0041 0052 0052 0049 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504957383952237355252433952

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