“powder、flask”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

powder-flask

释义

ˈpowder-flask
A case for carrying gunpowder, formerly usually of horn (see next), later of leather or metal, usually with a special device for measuring out a charge of powder; used by soldiers and sportsmen: = flask n.² 2.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Powder-flasks, in artillery, are most commonly made of horn, of any convenient size and figure, to carry powder for priming of cannon.1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 360 A powder-flask, which a clerk had purchased from a Blackfoot warrior.a1845Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 236/1 Irish Protestants whose..dinner-table is regularly spread with knife, fork, and cocked pistol; salt-cellar and powder-flask.

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