blasting
nounEtymology From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).
1
A planned explosion, as in mining.
- But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
2
The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
- If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37:
- They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
3
Bodybuilding, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Slang Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.
- Derived terms
- abrasive blasting, blasting cap, blastingly, microblasting