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ˈpowder-chest
a. A chest for holding gunpowder.
b. A kind of petard charged with gunpowder, scrap iron, old nails, etc., fastened to the deck of a ship to be discharged at a boarding enemy.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. v. xiii. 86 How to make Powder-Chests. 1753Hanway Trav. I. ii. xxvi. 167 Our danger was the greater, as the fire was about the powder-chest. 1875in Knight Dict. Mech. |