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FOOD FOR POWDER

Specialty Definition: FOOD FOR POWDER

DomainDefinition

Literature

Food for Powder Raw recruits levied in times of war. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: FOOD FOR POWDER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Combatant

Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: FOOD FOR POWDER

Language Translations for "FOOD FOR POWDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

пушечное мясо (cannon fodder, cannon-fodder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FOOD FOR POWDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-f-f-o-o-o-o-p-r-r-w"

-5 letters: foreword.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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