stinkball

English edit

Etymology edit

stink +‎ ball

Noun edit

stinkball (plural stinkballs)

(military, historical) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odour, formerly used in naval warfare.

Translations edit

composition

Finnish: hajupommi (fi)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stinkball”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)