Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

food for powder

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.22 in modern English

Syllables: food -for pow-der
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Dated form of cannon fodder.

Dated; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Tut, tut, good enough to toſſe: foode for Powder, foode for Powder: they'll fill a Pit, as well as better: tuſh man, mortall men, mortall men."
"The great and illustrious Frederick had scores of these white slave-dealers all round the frontiers of his kingdom, debauching troops or kidnapping peasants, and hesitating at no crime to supply those brilliant regiments of his with food for powder;[…]"
"A soldier, as Bernard Shaw has said, “ostensibly a heroic and patriotic defender of his country, is really an unfortunate man driven by destitution to offer himself as food for powder for the sake of regular rations, shelter, and clothing.”"

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What does food for powder mean?: Dated form of cannon fodder.

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