"gunpaper" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gunpapers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
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      },
      "expansion": "gunpaper (usually uncountable, plural gunpapers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "gun-paper"
        }
      ],
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, The Artizan - Volume 24, page 102:",
          "text": "Mr. G. S. Melland, of Lime-street, London, who has distinguished himself among our makers of firearms, has brought out a gunpaper to supersede our old gunpowder.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events:",
          "text": "With improved revolvers of Mr. Millard six rounds were fired first with cartridges containing fifteen grains of gunpaper and a conical bullet, at fifteen yards' range, which gave as a result an average of 13-16 inch penetration into deal.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, The Book of Popular Science - Volume 10, page 3240:",
          "text": "In 1832, Braconnot transformed starch into a source of terrific power by treating it with nitric acid; six years afterwards, Pelouse and Dumas changed cotton and paper into guncotton and gunpaper by nitrating these substances.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of gun-paper"
      ],
      "id": "en-gunpaper-en-noun-qD~gMprd",
      "links": [
        [
          "gun-paper",
          "gun-paper#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gunpaper"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gunpapers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
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      },
      "expansion": "gunpaper (usually uncountable, plural gunpapers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "gun-paper"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, The Artizan - Volume 24, page 102:",
          "text": "Mr. G. S. Melland, of Lime-street, London, who has distinguished himself among our makers of firearms, has brought out a gunpaper to supersede our old gunpowder.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events:",
          "text": "With improved revolvers of Mr. Millard six rounds were fired first with cartridges containing fifteen grains of gunpaper and a conical bullet, at fifteen yards' range, which gave as a result an average of 13-16 inch penetration into deal.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, The Book of Popular Science - Volume 10, page 3240:",
          "text": "In 1832, Braconnot transformed starch into a source of terrific power by treating it with nitric acid; six years afterwards, Pelouse and Dumas changed cotton and paper into guncotton and gunpaper by nitrating these substances.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of gun-paper"
      ],
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        [
          "gun-paper",
          "gun-paper#English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gunpaper"
}