gunpowder

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

   “They have been a bold, heroic, and purely self dependent nation, never having either courted,—or been subdued by—other Tribes or Europeans. But what early mind—a power—could face gunpowder and the firelocks? Hence their annihilation!”

2. isim Ellipsis of gunpowder tea.
3. fiil To destroy with gunpowder.

   “[…] he was […] never getting into quarrels with his neighbors and gunpowdering them out of house and home. His subjects loved him.”

4. isim Idli podi/milagai podi; ground-up dry spices mixed with oil and ghee and served alongside idli or dosa.

   “Some restaurants try and give their dosas the "ethnic" touch by slipping along a small dish of mulaga podi-gunpowder mixed with oil as well, but that isn't always enough.”