gunpowder
noun
an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
gunpowdery
-
a word derived from
gunpowder.
Example Sentences
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There was something appropriate in their landing on that day of gunpowdery memories, the 5th of November.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Whether you're right or wrong, I'm too badly used up to quarrel with you or to answer in any such gunpowdery fashion.
From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe
The words shot out from the gunpowdery temper of Anna Kull.
From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Sarah J. Prichard
“I can imagine it seems dull now that your Dutch friends are gone,” she began, in a crisp, gunpowdery way which was more than a declaration of war.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
Uncle Lambert says they make him feel quite gunpowdery at lunch.
From The Talking Horse And Other Tales by F. Anstey
