| 单词 | powder house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder house powder house n. a building for storing gunpowder or other explosive material; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons > gunpowder store powder house1461 magazinea1599 powder magazine1712 1461 Patent Roll, 1 Edward IV 18 July (P.R.O.: C 66/492) m. 5 Vna domo vocat. Powederhous in Turri nostra predicta [sc. the Tower of London]. 1626 in B. W. Quintrell Maynard Lieutenancy Bk. (1993) I. 143 Wee finde..an intention to build..a second powther house. 1720 in Mass. House of Representatives Jrnl. (1921) 2 288 Daniel Powning, keeper of the Powder-House. 1848 Knickerbocker 18 216 The powder house, the pound, the poor-house and the county-house, are all objects of notice to the traveller. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 7 Sept. 181/4 The spark that fired this powder-house was a letter protesting against the ‘constant criticism’ of the methods of Lancashire cricketers. 1997 Archaeology Sept.–Oct. 100/2 It was a self-sufficient complex that included a..powder house and proofing house (where the muskets were test fired). < as lemmas |
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