POWDER HORN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Container for carrying gunpowder; made of the hollow horn of an animal

Synonyms:

powder flask; powder horn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("powder horn" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

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