powderflask

English edit

Etymology edit

powder +‎ flask.

Noun edit

powderflask (plural powderflasks)

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Translations edit

container for gunpowder

Bulgarian: барутница f (barutnica)
French: poire à poudre (fr) f
Georgian: საპირისწამლე (saṗirisc̣amle)
Italian: fiaschetta (it) f
Japanese: 火薬入れ (kayaku-ire)
Maori: waipāta

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “powderflask”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)