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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CARTOUCH, n.
1. A case of wood, about three inches thick at the bottom girt with marlin, holding about four hundred musket balls, and six or eight iron balls of a pound weight, to be fired out of a howitz, for defending a pass. A cartouch is sometimes made of a globular form, and filled with a ball of a pound weight; and sometimes for guns, being of a ball of a half or quarter of a pound weight, tied in the form of a bunch of grapes, on a tompion of wood and coated over.
2. A portable box for charges. [See Cartridge-box.]
3. A roll or scroll on the cornice of a column.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a cartridge (usually with paper casing) [syn: cartouche, cartouch]

Merriam Webster's

noun see cartouche

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cartouch Car*touch", n.; pl. Cartouches. [F. cartouche, It. cartuccia, cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and cf. Cartridge.] 1. (Mil.) (a) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. (b) A cartridge box. (c) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. (d) A gunner's bag for ammunition. (e) A military pass for a soldier on furlough. 2. (Arch.) (a) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper. (b) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form. 3. (Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cartridge-box, cartridge-case.