Cartouch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A cartridge box.

II. Cartouch ·noun A gunner's bag for ammunition.

III. Cartouch ·noun A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

IV. Cartouch ·noun A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

V. Cartouch ·noun A roll or case of paper, ·etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.

VI. Cartouch ·noun An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.

VII. Cartouch ·noun A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of Paper.

VIII. Cartouch ·noun A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

Related Words

  • cartouch-box

    The accoutrement which contains the musket-cartridges: now generally called a pouch. ...

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