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wire cartridges

wire cartridges is the plural of wire cartridge.

Meaning of wire cartridge

Noun

wire cartridge (plural wire cartridges)

  1. An early type of shotgun cartridge that had wire lining in the case to assist concentrating the shot.
    • When we arrived at the knoll, after having crossed the frozen bog, I took on account of the considerable distance at which the bird would have to be shot at, if he, as we supposed, would settle in the top of the fir tree the shot out of my gun, and loaded again with a wire cartridge.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89

Questions about wire cartridges

What is wire cartridges the plural of?
Wire cartridges is the plural of wire cartridge.

Words near wire cartridges in the dictionary

  1. wire brush
  2. wire brushed
  3. wire brushes
  4. wire brushing
  5. wire cartridge
  6. wire cartridges
  7. wire chamber
  8. wire chambers
  9. wire cloth
  10. wire connector
  11. wire connectors

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