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powdermaker

powdermaker noun: a person or company that makes gunpowder.

Noun

powdermaker (plural powdermakers)

  1. A person or company that makes gunpowder.
    • After the sale the powdermakers met to agree on the price of gunpowder and the powdermakers in the Lake District, where mills had been established near Kendal in 1763, were concerned about being undersold in Scotland.2000, Glenys Crocker, Alan Crocker, Surrey Industrial History Group, Damnable inventions: Chilworth gunpowder and the paper mills of the Tillingbourne

Forms of powdermaker

pluralpowdermakers

Origin of powdermaker

From powder + maker.

Questions about powdermaker

What does powdermaker mean?
Powdermaker means a person or company that makes gunpowder.
What part of speech is powdermaker?
Powdermaker is a noun.
What is the plural of powdermaker?
The plural of powdermaker is powdermakers.

Words near powdermaker in the dictionary

  1. powderkegs
  2. powderless
  3. powderlike
  4. Powderly
  5. Powderlys
  6. powdermaker
  7. powdermakers
  8. powderman
  9. powdermen
  10. powdermill
  11. powdermills

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