The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exploder \Ex*plod"er\, n.
One who or that which explodes.
One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.
--South.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone or something that explodes. 2 One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. 3 A device to trigger explosive detonators such as a plunger or crank operated electrical generator. 4 (context military navy English) A device to trigger explosions in torpedoes.Blair, Clay, Jr. ''Silent Victory''; Holmes, W. J. ''Undersea Victory''
Usage examples of "exploder".
The contact exploder was a detonating mechanism fitted into the warhead before launching.
Admiral Lockwood, by conducting a series of tests ih torpedoes against the cliffs of Kohoolawe Island, found out what the trouble was with the exploder and fitted stouter firing pins.
My skipper got his three kills with contact exploders, Against orders, but they worked.
The service was secretive about both alarming deficiencies, but the submariners themselves all knew about the unreliable magnetic exploders of the Mark Fourteen torpedo, and about the captains who either had to be beached for overcaution or, on the Branch Hoban pattern, fell apart under attack, Aces like Captain Aster who combined cold courage with skill and luck in battle were few.
So I'm going to shoot him with contact exploders on a shallow setting.
Botea had two orbital atomic guns and assorted 15-T and 8-T exploders, all aimed at anybody who tried to steal Botea's precious IIIB diamonds.
Drove the sub fleet crazy, until the desk sailors in Washington finally got around to admitting their vaunted new magnetic exploders weren’t worth a damn, and neither was the Mark-Fourteen itself.
We sent for eight hundred pounds of TNT, three hundred feet of cord, five hundred feet of wire, safety fuzes, friction tape, a long rope, electric and nonelectric caps, firing reel, an exploder, twelve bags of sand, cap crimpers, and fuze lighters.
When he had emerged from the shaft, uncrimped the short circuit he had put for the sake of safety at the end of the wires, and connected them to the exploder, there were just ten seconds to go.
Deep in one pack he felt the bundled blocks in the sacks, the sacks wrapped in the sleeping robe, and tying the strings of that and pushing the lock shut again, he put his hands into the other and felt the sharp wood outline of the box of the old exploder, the cigar box with the caps, each little cylinder wrapped round and round with its two wires (the lot of them packed as carefully as he had packed his collection of wild bird eggs when he was a boy), the stock of the submachine gun, disconnected from the barrel and wrapped in his leather jacket, the two pans and five clips in one of the inner pockets of the big pack-sack arid the small coils of copper wire and the big coil of light insulated Wire in the other.