gelly

1. 1.

   a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate

   Synonymsgelignite

   Broaderdynamite

Other forms of gelly

plural

gellies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gelly

What does gelly mean?

gelly means "a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate".

How many syllables are in gelly?

gelly has 2 syllables: gel-ly. The stress falls on "gel".

What is another word for gelly?

Close synonyms include gelignite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gelly a common word?

gelly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.