NOUN
- a general purpose cartridge having a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
How To Use ball cartridge In A Sentence
- The first thing which struck me forcibly was, that each of these savages was armed with a good musket, and most of them had also a cartouch box buckled round their waists, filled with ball cartridges, and those who had fired their pieces from the canoes carefully cleaned the pans, covered the locks over with a piece of dry rag, and put them in a secure place in their canoes. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
- Advancing across wadies and scaling knolls upon the desert, the troops were instructed to open fire with ball cartridge. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
- The traverse is the home of spare ammunition, of ball cartridge, bombs, and hand-grenades. The Red Horizon