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American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1
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Cartouch
CARTOUCH, n.
1. A case of wood, about three inches thick at the bottom girt with marlin, holding about four hundred musket balls, and six or eight iron balls of a pound weight, to be fired out of a howitz, for defending a pass. A cartouch is sometimes made of a globular form, and filled with a ball of a pound weight; and sometimes for guns, being of a ball of a half or quarter of a pound weight, tied in the form of a bunch of grapes, on a tompion of wood and coated over.
2. A portable box for charges. [See Cartridge-box.]
3. A roll or scroll on the cornice of a column.
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Chicago:
Noah Webster Jr., "Cartouch," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed September 18, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UK4AZ2IX4MGZVI.
MLA:
Webster, Noah, Jr. "Cartouch." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 18 Sep. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UK4AZ2IX4MGZVI.
Harvard:
Webster, N, 'Cartouch' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 September 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UK4AZ2IX4MGZVI.
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