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Definition of Cartridges
1. cartridge [n] - See also: cartridge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cartridges
Literary usage of Cartridges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The cartridges are arranged horizontally, one above the other, ... 23), and the
cartridges fall through the aperture B. When all the channels are emptied, ..."
2. The Future of War in Its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations: Is by Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch (1899)
"The increase in the number of cartridges, already mentioned in another connection,
... With the Berdan rifle a Russian infantryman carried 84 cartridges, ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"As the pin is rotated, the cartridges, one by one, drop mto the grooves of the
carrier from the feed- cases, and instantly the lock is moved forward to load ..."
4. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"Why, without the cartridges I can do this, by drawing the wadding and then shovelling
... CANDLE-cartridges. We have now an improved method of making these ..."
5. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1844)
"When the spoon and cartridges -were contrived — then it was, ... Why, without
the cartridges I can do this, by drawing the wadding and then shovelling out ..."
6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... different calibre, stacked on the field ; total, eight hundred and thi^-three.
Twenty-three thousand Enfield cartridges; eleven, thousand six ..."
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