cartridge ejector

1. 1.

   a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing

   Synonymsejector

   Broadermechanism

   Part ofgun

Questions about cartridge ejector

What does cartridge ejector mean?

cartridge ejector means "a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing".

What is another word for cartridge ejector?

Close synonyms include ejector. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cartridge ejector a common word?

cartridge ejector 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.