"gun-paper" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gun-papers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "gun-paper (usually uncountable, plural gun-papers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, page 102:",
          "text": "After rolling, the gun-paper is dried at 212° Fahr., and has the appearance of a compact grayish mass.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine - Volume 9, page 265:",
          "text": "In the same lecture he noticed the decomposition of gun-paper by exposure to oxygen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, English Mechanics and the World of Science - Volume 42, page 293:",
          "text": "Another very good material is gun-paper. which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Paper-pulp that has been impregnated with nitrates, used for the explosive charge in firearms."
      ],
      "id": "en-gun-paper-en-noun-HFeZgHtN",
      "links": [
        [
          "Paper",
          "paper"
        ],
        [
          "pulp",
          "pulp"
        ],
        [
          "impregnate",
          "impregnate"
        ],
        [
          "nitrate",
          "nitrate"
        ],
        [
          "explosive",
          "explosive"
        ],
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "papyroxylin"
        },
        {
          "word": "gun paper"
        },
        {
          "word": "gunpaper"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gun-paper"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gun-papers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "gun-paper (usually uncountable, plural gun-papers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, page 102:",
          "text": "After rolling, the gun-paper is dried at 212° Fahr., and has the appearance of a compact grayish mass.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine - Volume 9, page 265:",
          "text": "In the same lecture he noticed the decomposition of gun-paper by exposure to oxygen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, English Mechanics and the World of Science - Volume 42, page 293:",
          "text": "Another very good material is gun-paper. which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Paper-pulp that has been impregnated with nitrates, used for the explosive charge in firearms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Paper",
          "paper"
        ],
        [
          "pulp",
          "pulp"
        ],
        [
          "impregnate",
          "impregnate"
        ],
        [
          "nitrate",
          "nitrate"
        ],
        [
          "explosive",
          "explosive"
        ],
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "papyroxylin"
    },
    {
      "word": "gun paper"
    },
    {
      "word": "gunpaper"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gun-paper"
}