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- noun Plural form of
powderhorn .
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Examples
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Tom also can build beautiful longrifles, powderhorns and other accouterments.
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Tom also can build beautiful longrifles, powderhorns and other accouterments.
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Around their necks hung their powderhorns ornamented with their own rude carvings.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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Over the fireplace or beside the doorway, and suspended usually on stags 'antlers, hung the firearms and the yellow powderhorns, the latter often carved in Indian fashion with scenes of the hunt or war.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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Enormous sums were to be expended for presents to keep the Indians loyal; and the King complains that he cannot understand how baubles of beads and powderhorns cost so much, or how the western tribes seem to become more and more numerous, or how the French officers, who distribute the presents, become millionaires in a few years.
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They carried their muskets (to which a bayonet was attached) in their hands; their pouches or powderhorns were slung over their backs, and their left hand hung down by their side, while the right foot was slightly put forward.
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It sounded like Indians, and the men more than once glanced at their rifles and powderhorns.
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Greatly doubting what welcome awaited them, they filled their powderhorns and prepared for the worst.
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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