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Definition of Stinkpots
1. stinkpot [n] - See also: stinkpot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinkpots
Literary usage of Stinkpots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts (1872)
"Among the occasional warlike contrivances, stinkpots were employed to repel ...
A representation of the use of stinkpots, and also of the mode of using the ..."
2. Naval Courts Martial by David Hannay (1914)
"cabin and quarter-deck, clearing the way by throwing stinkpots* and hand grenades
in front of them. As told here the loss of the Diamond, ..."
3. The "ever-victorious Army,": A History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt.-Col by Andrew Wilson (1868)
"Commander Jones and his party had to keep in the gateway till dark, whin they
withdrew, having had a most unpleasant time of it, stinkpots and powder-bags, ..."
4. The "ever-victorious Army,": A History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt.-Col by Andrew Wilson (1868)
"stinkpots and powder - bags, with lighted brooms attached, had been dropped over
the wall, and had half suffocated them ; but this was not so bad as the ..."
5. The Taeping Rebellion in China: Its Origins, Progress, and Present Condition by William Henry Sykes (1863)
"stinkpots, grass brooms steeped in oil, and thrown over in a blaze, on top of
which quantities of gunpowder would be thrown immediately afterwards; ..."
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