cartridge

Definition

The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.

Etymology

Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.

Example Sentences

• "Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride."
• "The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated."
• "We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack."