Cartridge
['kɑːtrɪdʒ] or ['kɑrtrɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun.
(noun.) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable.
(noun.) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment; 'he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck'.
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Definition
(n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
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Definition
n. a case made of paper pasteboard metal &c. containing the charge for a gun—Blank′-car′tridges contain powder only; Ball′-cartridges contain a bullet as well.—ns. Car′tridge-bag a bag of flannel merino &c. for holding a charge for a cannon; Car′tridge-belt a belt having pockets for cartridges; Car′tridge-box a small box for holding cartridges carried by soldiers; Car′tridge-pā′per a light-coloured strong paper originally manufactured for making cartridges.
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To dream of cartridges, foretells unhappy quarrels and dissensions. Some untoward fate threatens you or some one closely allied to you. If they are empty, there will be foolish variances in your associations.
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Examples
- In the early form of the revolver the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected from the cylinder singly by an ejector rod or handy nail. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Is it blank cartridge or ball? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A small _electric battery_ has been placed in the stock to explode the cartridge when the trigger is pulled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This little instrument was slung in a case looking like a cartridge box, and its sensitive roll was able to receive 100 successive pictures. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Lefaucheux of France, in the later period, devised a metal _gas check_ cartridge which was a great advance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Is it, Mr. George still muses, blank cartridge or ball? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Arsenal at Frankford, Philadelphia, devised a series of cartridge-making machines which ranked among the highest triumphs of American invention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Unless the powder from a badly fitting cartridge happens to spurt backward, one may fire many shots without leaving a sign. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A very convenient and useful development in films is to be found in the cartridge system, by which the film may be placed in and removed from the camera in broad daylight. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His men had stood up gallantly until the ammunition in their cartridge-boxes gave out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the Mannlicher the barrel moves to the front, leaving space for a fresh cartridge to come up from the magazine below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He was lying on a heap of empty cartridge hulls but his head was protected by the rock and his body lay in the lee of the horse. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- McPherson joined in the advance as soon as his men could fill their cartridge-boxes, leaving one brigade to guard our wounded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The recoil of the gun in both large and small arms is now utilised to expel the fired cartridge shell, and to withdraw a fresh one from its magazine and place it in position in the chamber. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the Mannlicher gun, adopted by the German army, the clip which holds the cartridges is itself inserted into the magazine, along with the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- One night he built a fire in the grate and started to throw pistol cartridges into the flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A spring within the magazine fed the cartridges up into alignment with the barrel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Modern magazine guns permit twenty-five to thirty shots a minute as single loaders, and besides they hold in reserve five cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Make holes above for your cartridges and attach wires of any length. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- However, we did shoot a number of live ones until Fox ran out of cartridges. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Both of them employed the bolt system as previously embodied in the needle gun, but added to it the magazine principle and changed the method of supplying and feeding the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- From Henry VIII to Cartridges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I shall drink brandy, added Mr. Vincy, emphatically--as much as to say, this was not an occasion for firing with blank-cartridges. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Save thy cartridges and do not talk so much or thou wilt be very thirsty, Sordo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- History of the Breech Loader and Metallic Cartridges. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The single breech-loader is now being succeeded by the magazine gun, by which a supply of cartridges in a chamber is automatically fed into the barrel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The rifle lay beside him and there were three clips of cartridges shining in the sun beside the rifle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And how many cartridges per rifle? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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