powder horn
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Indianola, Texas.—Steamers run from New Orleans five times a week to Powder-horn.
From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Marcy, Randolph Barnes
Powder-horn and heavy musk-rat gantlets are attached to the cord about his neck; so without losing either he can fight bare-handed, free and in motion, at a moment's notice.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
This road leaves the Gulf coast at Powder-horn, on Matagorda Bay, which point is difficult of access by land from the north, but may be reached by steamers from New Orleans five times a week.
From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Marcy, Randolph Barnes
Seventeenth-century Powder-horn, found in the wall of an old house at Glastonbury.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
