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Definition of Powder store

1. Noun. A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Powder Store

Literary usage of Powder store

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 by Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders, Jonathan Willis Martin, Hampton Lawrence Carson (1897)
"... aforesaid nor within two miles thereof shall from and after the time the powder store aforesaid is so erected and finished presume to keep in any house, ..."

2. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1881)
"one at the powder store, and of Cap' Humphrey ... Likewise that the Selectmen provide a fitt man to ward at the powder store from the ..."

3. History of the Great Fire in Boston, November 9 and 10, 1872 by Russell Herman Conwell (1873)
"William Hudson's, six, and two at the powder-store; Capt. Daniel Henchman's, five; Capt. ... John Hull's, five, and one at the powder- store ; and of Capt. ..."

4. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"... except at " the powder-store," was prohibited under penalty of ten pounds. Captains of vessels arriving in port were also obliged to deposit their ..."

5. The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1874)
"powder store at Buenos Ayres exploded, killing 160 soldiers. ,, 16 Dec. The Lottie Sleigh exploded in the Mersey, at Liverpool, of which we have given full ..."

6. The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1871)
"powder store at Buenos Ayres exploded, killing 160 soldiers. ,, 16 Dec. The Lottie Sleigh exploded in the Mersey, at Liverpool, of which we have given full ..."

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