Assertion: corned powder | /r/ObjectUse | used for many years
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text: Granulating or " corning" the powder was a great step in advance, but it is doubtful whether this operation was intended to increase its strength, or merely to render it more convenient for charging small-arms, for which alone corned powder was used for many years, whilst meal powder was still employed for heavy guns ; the latter was called " serpentine " powder in the time of Edward VI., probably in allusion to the name of one of the pieces of ordnance then in use,