powder horn

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

   Synonymspowder flask

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Questions about powder horn

What does powder horn mean?

powder horn means "container for carrying gunpowder; made of the hollow horn of an animal".

What is another word for powder horn?

Close synonyms include powder flask. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is powder horn a common word?

powder horn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.