Read full poem →One! Two! Three! And his corpse, like a clod,
Beats me into a jelly! The chime,
One! Two! Three! And his dead legs keep time.
Dictionary Entry
An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
. jellyroll jellybeans jellyjelly petroleumjelly royaljelly currant
Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.
Antonyms
Related Words
Poetry examples for “jelly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Dried to a grey monotony of tone,
And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon
The sun-baked pebbles, far beyond their reach
Read full poem →‘Shake That Thing!” That was the version of the
“Jelly-Roll Blues” that Banjo loved and always played.
And the Senegalese boys loved to shake to it. Banjo was
Read full poem →Or the Greek deterioration.
Or skip to a word on the plasmic jelly,
Which Benjamin Moore and others think