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Definition of Powder flask
1. Noun. Container for carrying gunpowder; made of the hollow horn of an animal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Powder Flask
Literary usage of Powder flask
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Instructions to Young Sportsmen, in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker, William Trotter Porter (1846)
"powder flask. Ir you expostulate with an old wildfowl gunner on the danger of
his piece, he may retaliate on that of your spring powder flask; ..."
2. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"powder flask. Ir you expostulate with an old wildfowl gunner on the danger of
his piece, he may retaliate on that of your spring powder flask; ..."
3. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1826)
"... he may retaliate on that of your spring powder flask ; while he (with a cow's
horn, stopped at one end with a piece of oakum, and at the other with a ..."
4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1819)
"In the old powder flask, when- the cutter was moved back, a few grains of powder
often lodged about the chamber, and, if any other substance, ..."
5. The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility by Thomas Robson (1830)
"... with a bugle, powder-flask, and pouch, slung from the shoulder, and pendent
on the right side. Motto, Liberty and Independence. ..."
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