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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 July 2, 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. 2 Jul. 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 2 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UK4AZ2IX4MGZVI.
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