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ˈflashless, a.
Emitting or producing no flash, esp. of gunpowder which ignites without flashing; without a flash (various senses).
1908Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 6/2 The latest American artillery wonder is..a ‘noiseless, smokeless, flashless, colourless, fumeless gun’, which, it is claimed, can throw two million bullets an hour. 1922[see flash-spotting s.v. flash n.2 14 b]. 1929R. Graves Good-bye to All That xi. 123 Before the war there were the two line battalions and the depot; the affiliated and flash-less territorials. 1945Times 10 Oct. 3/4 General Marshall, however, gives the Germans two points: their triple-purpose 88 mm. gun and their powder, flashless as well as smokeless. |