Gale’s Compound.
Powdered glass mixed with gunpowder to render it nonexplosive. Dr. Gale is the patentee.
Powdered glass mixed with gunpowder to render it nonexplosive. Dr. Gale is the patentee.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.