pouther
Scots
Noun
pouther (plural pouthers)
- powder
- 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- “But the gunpowder? — is there such a thing in the tower? The Marquis seemed to know of it.”
“The pouther - ha! ha! ha! The Marquis - ha! ha! ha!”
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