Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A portable case or box of leather, with cells for holding cartridges.
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Examples
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The alarm spread instantly through the camp, and in a moment the command turned out for action, somewhat in deshabille it is true, but none the less effective, for every man had grabbed his rifle and cartridge-box at the first alarm.
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He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a nut.
Les Miserables 2008
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A red-brown leather cartridge-box was attached to the waist-belt; later, it was suspended on the right hip from a buff leather cross-belt.
Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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As descriptions of several patterns of cartridge-box have been found1 one can assume that this item went through a number of variations The standard French cartouchière of the mid-eighteenth century held thirty musket cartridges.
Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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A red-brown leather cartridge-box was attached to the waist-belt; later, it was suspended on the right hip from a buff leather cross-belt.
la charge de la compagnie Franche de la Marine du musée Stewart au fort de l'île Ste-Hélène de Brantigny........................ 2008
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He had a loaded gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges.
Les Miserables 2008
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An empty cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced.
Les Miserables 2008
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Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box.
Les Miserables 2008
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Another spread out over his coat the cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted:
Les Miserables 2008
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As descriptions of several patterns of cartridge-box have been found1 one can assume that this item went through a number of variations The standard French cartouchière of the mid-eighteenth century held thirty musket cartridges.
la charge de la compagnie Franche de la Marine du musée Stewart au fort de l'île Ste-Hélène de Brantigny........................ 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cartridge-box
I haven't seen this used with a hyphen, but that's how the OED has it listed, so I left it there.
A box for storing or carrying cartridges; the case in which a soldier carries his supply of cartridges; usually (in the eighteenth/nineteenth centuries) made of a wood box with sized holes drilled in, placed inside a leather carrying case with strap.
October 17, 2007