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  1. Stink-Ball
    A stink-ball was an early gas grenade comprised of a preparation of pitch, rosin, nitre, gunpowder, colophony, asafoetida and other offensive and suffocating ingredients placed in earthen jars. They were used in naval warfare, being thrown at close quarters onto the enemy's decks.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/FS.HTM

  2. Stinkball
    Stink'ball` noun A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/199

  3. Stinkball
    • (n.) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/stinkball/

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