Word Meanings - POWDERHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A horn in which gunpowder is carried.

Related words: (words related to POWDERHORN)

• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• CARRION
  1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
• GUNPOWDER
  A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting. Note: Gunpowder consists of from 70 to 80 per cent of niter, with 10 to 15 per cent of each
• CARRICK
  A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend , a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts , the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.
• CARRIER
  That which drives or carries; as: A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge
• SCARRING
  A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• GINNY-CARRIAGE
  A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGE
  A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
• WATER CARRIAGE
  1. Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water. 2. A vessel or boat. Arbuthnot.
• CARRAGEEN; CARRIGEEN
  A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus