cartridge belt
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈkɑːrtɪdʒ bɛlt/
- Specialized
:
cinturón de cartuchos
- Campaign hat, cartridge belt and weapon.
Examples
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Drop your cartridge belt.
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Like Siegfried with Balmunga, Aaron with his staff, he withdraws from his cartridge belt a favorite photograph he's clipped from People magazine.
Fiction book (1994) -
- Let's see that cartridge belt.
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He wears the rope across his chest like a cartridge belt.
Fiction book (1994) -
He tucked the keys behind his cartridge belt.
Fiction book (1998) -
He touched the keyring tucked behind his cartridge belt.
Fiction book (1998) -
The soldier adjusted his cartridge belt to ensure quick access to his ammunition during the training exercise.
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During the war, each soldier had a cartridge belt with loops to hold extra rounds for their firearms.
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Before the hunting trip, he filled his cartridge belt with ammunition to prepare for a long day in the field.
Synonyms
2
9.9
A wide belt people wear over the shoulder to hold bullets
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'cartridge' (ammunition case) plus 'belt' (a band for carrying items): it denotes a belt for holding cartridges. Both constituents are concrete and the noun+noun purpose construction is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cartridge belt comes from the simple idea of a belt that holds ammunition. Soldiers wore a belt with loops or pockets for each cartridge, so the name means 'a wide belt made to carry ammunition'.