nitre

noun

Definitions

  1. British standard spelling of niter.

    • For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.
    • Had he bought nitre before, I have since tried to recall and I cannot. It is a common enough article and I sell it every day.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nitre. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA