powder flaskn.
/ˈpaʊdə flɑːsk/, /ˈpaʊdə flask/, U.S. /ˈpaʊdər ˌflæsk/ Now chiefly historical.
A case for carrying gunpowder, formerly usually of horn, later of leather or metal, usually with a special device for measuring out a charge of powder; = flask n.2 2.
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powder box1379
powder barrel1496
powder poke1496
powder horn1508
powder bag1533
flask1549
powder flask1552
budge-barrel1627
powder chest1627
powder magazine1712
auget1752
powder keg1791
salting-box1802
pulverain1890
1552 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 131 Hagbutteris, furnischit with powldir flask, morsing hornis, and all uthair geir.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xiii. 476/1 A Brittish Flask, or Powder Flask, this being the part by which the Charge of the Gun is rightly made.
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. at Frasquillo A little square Glass Bottle; also a little Powder-Flask.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Powder-flasks, in artillery, are most commonly made of horn, of any convenient size and figure, to carry powder for priming of cannon.
1800 G. Walker Three Spaniards II. i. 3 Have you got your powder flask? for the hard riding, or else my carrying one of the pistols in my hand, has dashed out the priming.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. ix. 134 A powderflask, which a clerk had purchased from a Blackfoot warrior, bore the initials of poor More.
1871 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 455/1 There are one or two large cupboards..a gun and powder flask above the cupboard.
1925 D. Belasco Girl of Golden West i, in M. J. Moses Representative Amer. Dramas 61 Wearing a pale, faded beaver hat and a heavy overcoat, his pistol and powder flask in his belt.
1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xvii. 147 In the room where the family ate, there were harpoons,..powder flasks, shot belts and fishing rods.
1994 Guns & Shooting June 64/2 There was usually a shot flask or belt in addition to the powder flask.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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