ˈpowder-bag
A bag for holding powder: † a. ? for powdered salt or spices. Obs. b. for carrying gunpowder. c. for hair-powder.
| 1392–3 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 152 Super officio salsarie..pro j pare powder-baggs, iiij d. 1533 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 160 To iij careage hors to cary the gunstanis, pulder baggis, and uthir necessaris. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) D d j, Cartridges..may be kept in the powder magazine.., in the empty powder-barrels and powder-bags. 1807 Southey Espriella's Lett. (1808) I. 7 The man who cleans boots is running in one direction, the barber with his powder-bag in another. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Powder-bags, leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lord Cochrane, as being more easily placed. |