Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gunpowder prepared in cubes or prisms, sometimes as large as two inches on a side. It is slow-burning. Also called
cube-powder and prismatic powder.
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Examples
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El – Muwaylah, all our stores and properties, including sundry cases of cartridges and five hundred pounds of pebble-powder, which had been stored immediately under the main cabin and its eternal cigarettes and allumettes.
The Land of Midian 2003
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In the opinion of seven of the eleven the large-grain powder came next; seven also of the eleven placed the rifle large-grain third on the list; while they were again unanimous in pronouncing the pebble-powder the worst sound-producer.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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To avoid the strain resulting from quick combustion, the powder employed is composed of lumps far larger than those of the pebble-powder above referred to.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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El-Muwaylah, all our stores and properties, including sundry cases of cartridges and five hundred pounds of pebble-powder, which had been stored immediately under the main cabin and its eternal cigarettes and allumettes.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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