Definitions for powder-monkey

powder-monkey powder monkey

Powder-Monkey is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 624 anagrams from letters in powder-monkey (-deekmnooprwy).

Definitions for powder-monkey

noun

  1. (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  2. powderman (def 1).

Origin of powder-monkey

First recorded in 1675-85

Examples for powder-monkey

He is eighteen years of age, and is a 'powder monkey' on Number Sixteen, a six-pounder on the spar deck.

Everybody in the fleet, from the commodore to the powder monkey, was thinking about it.

It seemed to him that he had grown suddenly from a powder monkey into a man.

The powder monkey rushed up with the fire, and then the cannon began to bark, I tell you.

Word Value for powder-monkey
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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