cartridge clip

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noun

a metal frame or container holding cartridges for a magazine rifle or automatic pistol.

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Also called ammunition clip .

Words nearby cartridge clip

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How to use cartridge clip in a sentence

The bottom row shows the development in the manufacture of the cartridge clip.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
When you say a six-cartridge clip, could that gun have been fired with the clip fully loaded and another one in the chamber?
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
I overheard one chap say, as he thrust a cartridge clip into place, "Good Old Ross."
On the Fringe of the Great Fight|George G. Nasmith
He paused a few seconds to jack a fresh cartridge-clip into the automatic.
Darkness and Dawn|George Allan England

One of the Royal Scots Fusiliers was saved by a cartridge clip.
Tommy Atkins at War|James Alexander Kilpatrick

British Dictionary definitions for cartridge clip

cartridge clip

noun

a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm

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