ball cartridge

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   a general purpose cartridge having a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder

   Broadercartridge

Questions about ball cartridge

What does ball cartridge mean?

ball cartridge means "a general purpose cartridge having a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder".

Is ball cartridge a common word?

ball cartridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.