niter

American  

[nahy-ter] / ˈnaɪ tər /

especially British, nitre

noun

1. potassium nitrate.

2. sodium nitrate.

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niter British  

/ ˈnaɪtə /

noun

1. the usual US spelling of nitre

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niter Scientific  

/ nī′tər /

1. A naturally occurring mineral form of potassium nitrate. It is used to make gunpowder.

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Etymology

Origin of niter

1375–1425; late Middle English nitre < Latin nitrum < Greek nítron natron

Example Sentences

St. John, Chief Mining and Niter Bureau, has been nominated as the new Commissary-General.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

And thirdly of the various kinds of Allam, Vitriol, Niter, Sea-salt, Pit-salt.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

A new Experiment, shewing, How a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced without the help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind, or Niter, and that at any time of the year.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Which shews, saith he, that this Mud is nothing but a volatil Niter, which exhaling, doth not increase the Earth.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Dr. Shumard mentions several of this character in Pulaski County, the most noted being Niter Cave, in the Third Magnesian Limestone, with a wide20 entrance thirty feet above the level of the Gasconade.

From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Owen, Luella Agnes