Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Prayer-powder
subs. phr. (American).—See quot.
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1825. NEAL, Brother Jonathan, II. xiv. With a silver bullet—a leaf o’ the Bible for wadding—and a charge of PRAYER-POWDER—powder, over every 365 grains of which the Lord’s prayer has been said.
