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/kˈɑrtrədʒ/ /kˈɑrtrɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Cartridge n. (Mil.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.

Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a projectile.

Blank cartridge, a cartridge without a projectile.

Center-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the capsule, instead of being contained in its rim. In the Prussian needle gun the fulminate is applied to the middle of the base of the bullet.

Rim-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate is contained in a rim surrounding its base.

Cartridge bag, a bag of woolen cloth, to hold a charge for a cannon.

Cartridge belt, a belt having pockets for cartridges.

Cartridge box, a case, usually of leather, attached to a belt or strap, for holding cartridges.

Cartridge paper.

(a)

A thick stout paper for inclosing cartridges.

(b)

A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.

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Etymology of 'Cartridge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cartridge" Quotes from Famous Books

... the end of the shaft with thin tinned iron wire for half an inch and running on solder, then drilling a hole in the end of the shaft and inserting an inch round-headed screw. In place of soldered wire, one can use an empty 38-caliber cartridge, either cutting off the base or drilling out the priming aperture to admit the screw. This type of arrow we use for rough practice, shooting tin cans, trees, boxes, and other impedimenta. It makes a good shaft for ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... now becoming dark, and the enemy were working round on our flank. We therefore fell back on the entrenched position and, though the enemy kept up a heavy fire till two in the morning, ammunition was too scanty to allow us to waste a cartridge, and no reply was made. At three we set to work to strengthen the defences, using baskets filled with earth and sacks filled with sand, as well as adding ...

— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty

... prisoners condemned to death suffered the extreme penalty, the execution occurring in the forest near the town. A firing party of forty-eight men was divided into four squads. According to the custom at all military executions one musket in each squad was charged with a blank cartridge. The four prisoners were shot simultaneously, and all died instantly. Two of them were much dejected; the others met their deaths firmly and shouted "Vive la Pologne" as they heard the order ...

— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox

... them all to perform Alec's commands, and without thinking twice they dropped their hands. George sank cowering into a chair. Walker, bending down, picked up the revolver and gave it to Alec, who silently fitted into an empty chamber the cartridge that had been ...

— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham

... the long strain of the trenches was a bathe in the sea, but any diversion while in rear of the firing line was exhilarating. We used to gather on the moors that lay between Geoghegan's Bluff and Bruce's Ravine, Turkish cartridge boxes made by the Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken at Karlsruhe and labelled with inscriptions in German and Turkish, innumerable spent Turkish cartridges, abandoned Maeuser rifles, Turkish bandoliers (stamped with the English name ...

— With Manchesters in the East • Gerald B. Hurst

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