Definition of Gunpaper

1. a type of explosive paper [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunpaper

gunnery
gunnery sergeant
gunnie
gunnies
gunning
gunningite
gunnings
gunny
gunny cloth
gunny sack
gunnybag
gunnybags
gunnysack
gunnysacks
gunocracy
gunpaper (current term)
gunpapers
gunperson
gunpersons
gunplay
gunplays
gunpoint
gunpoints
gunport
gunports
gunpowder
gunpowderish
gunpowders
gunroom
gunrooms

Literary usage of Gunpaper

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

1. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"With 33 per cent, lees material its penetrative power in these instances over gunpowder was 3-16 inch. With fifteen grains of gunpaper and a conical ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"... gunpaper. This composition is tönet- ing attention as a material ... tho gunpaper is dried at л v * perature of 212° Fall., when it presents ti ..."

3. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1890)
"... or gunpaper drawn through the fingers. 731. Development of electricity by pressure and cleavage.— Electrical excitement may be produced by other causes ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1876)
"gunpaper. VI. Combines elements of destruction with the principle of safety, 388; its composition ..."

5. Red, White and Blue by Robert Gehring Schaefer (1917)
"Pelouse and Dumas applied the same process to cotton and paper producing guncotton and gunpaper. In 1845 Schonbein of Basil discovered the explosive nature ..."

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