Synonym: powder. Similar words: powder, powder room, face powder, chowder, crowded, overcrowded, unpopular, manpower. Meaning: n. a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks.
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1 It is dangerous for children to play with gunpowder.
2 Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.
3 The gunpowder sometimes fails to ignite.
4 Damp gunpowder will not fire.
5 The smell of gunpowder filled his nostrils.
6 The barrel of gunpowder blew up with a terrible noise.
7 Gunpowder can fail to ignite or explode prematurely.
8 Reputed meeting place of Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
9 Gunpowder is still made use of in those quarries where a splitting rather than a shattering action is required.
10 The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
11 The gunpowder weapons may have a lower range but their extra penetrative power makes them especially useful against heavily armoured foes.
12 Gunpowder: the smouldering disbelief of McFall during his long and lonely vigil at the belay.
13 The bill says nothing about requiring taggants in gunpowder(sentencedict.com), only studying them.
14 Their alchemists were experimenting with gunpowder, their engineers had grasped the basic principles of steam propulsion.
15 Some one at Templecombe knew where to get gunpowder, oil and a slow fuse.
16 They've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever.
17 Unlike the solid cannon ball a mortar shell is hollow and filled with gunpowder.
18 The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder.
19 Those who could walk limped painfully home,[www.Sentencedict.com] in some cases so black with gunpowder they passed unrecognized.
20 This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining.
21 The family fortune had been established by Evelyn's grandfather, who had acquired the monopoly of making gunpowder under the Tudors.
22 Hand Gunners are highly effective warriors armed with primitive gunpowder weapons.
23 In 1570, the Marquis's son, also conveniently named Alberigo, inaugurated the use of gunpowder in quarrying.
24 This was to prevent sparks from train wheels and engines reaching the gunpowder stores.
25 The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man's neck.
26 It was either a passage or a long, thin room, a stone-walled storage space lined with gunpowder plot-style wooden barrels.
27 Benny was holding the cartridges steady while Garry filled them with the gunpowder.
28 Not a bad way to go, in a blaze of your own gunpowder.
29 Benjamin followed, studying the coiled slow fuses, jars of oil and small barrels of gunpowder piled there.
30 That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers.
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