pouther

Scots

Noun

pouther (plural pouthers)

1. powder
   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     “But the gunpowder? — is there such a thing in the tower? The Marquis seemed to know of it.”
     “The pouther - ha! ha! ha! The Marquis - ha! ha! ha!”