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Ball cartridge   /bɔl kˈɑrtrədʒ/   Listen
Ball cartridge

noun
1.
A general purpose cartridge having a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder.






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"Ball cartridge" Quotes from Famous Books



... "kiboko" during the two days' interregnum that elapsed between Lettow's departure and our occupation of the town. To British troops the most unwelcome duty of all is to form a part of a firing party on such occasions. The firing party are handed their rifles, alternate weapons only loaded with ball cartridge, that their sense of decency may not be offended by the distasteful recollection of killing a man in cold blood. For this assures that no man knows whether his was the rifle that sped the living soul from ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey



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