单词 | serpentine powder |
释义 | serpentine powdern. Gunpowder for use with the serpentine; gunpowder in fine meal as distinguished from the corned or granulated kind. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > explosive for use with firearms > specific serpentine powder1497 musket powder1644 black powder1793 percussion powder1819 wood powder1870 musketry powder1876 Schultze gunpowder1881 sawdust-powder1883 cocoa powder1884 brown powder1886 melinite1886 lyddite1888 rifleite1891 nitro powder1892 turpinite1895 nitro1900 shimose1904 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 129 Serpentine poudre with ij barelles brent in the botom. a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. G2v What though the Serpentine powder is quickly kindled, and quickly out. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 137 Powder both serpentine and corne powder. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 344/1 Serpentine Powder..is weak, and will not keep at Sea. 1787 Act 27 Geo. III c. 13 (Sched. A, Rates Inwards) Gunpowder, Serpentine Powder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1497 |
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