storage tube
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“I should have known it the moment I saw these fins. They’re spring-loaded because they have to snap out when this device leaves its storage tube.”
From Literature
This was another storage tube for an 81-millimeter mortar round, found by The New York Times beside a mortar used by anti-Qaddafi forces skirmishing last summer with loyalist forces on the desert flatlands north of the Nafusa mountains.
From New York Times
In the case of the photograph above, the sticker had been affixed to a storage tube for an 81-millimeter white-phosphorous mortar round with a point-detonating fuze.
From New York Times
Encased in a green storage tube with a flip-lock lid, the weapon has liquid sloshing inside a bulbous head reeking with a putrid odor that burns the nostrils.
From Time Magazine Archive
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