cartridge belt

A belt with loops or pockets for carrying ammunition or other kinds of equipment.

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cartridge belt

(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges

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car′tridge belt`

a belt of leather or webbing with loops or pockets for carrying cartridges.

[1870–75]

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Noun

cartridge belt - a broad belt with loops or pockets for holding ammunition

bandoleer, bandolier - a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers

belt - a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)

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On his head there was a wreck of a hat of indefinite form, but his gun of a new patent was a perfect gem, and his game bag and cartridge belt, though worn, were of the very best quality.

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Why had she not thought to strip the cartridge belt from Malbihn's waist before she had left his tent!

She thought Malbihn dead, so terrific a blow had she dealt him, and she hoped to find an opportunity after dark to enter the camp and search his tent for the cartridge belt; but scarcely had she found a hiding place in a great tree at the edge of the boma where she could watch without danger of being discovered, when she saw the Swede emerge from his tent, wiping blood from his face, and hurling a volley of oaths and questions at his terrified followers.

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Pulling on his boots and buckling his cartridge belt and revolver about his hips he stepped to the flap of his tent and looked out.

Then he led her a little farther into the forest, halted beneath a large tree with spreading branches, buckled a cartridge belt and revolver about her waist, and assisted her to clamber into the lower branches.

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Riding close to him I reached down from the saddle, and grasping his cartridge belt drew him up across the withers of my mount.

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There was no releasing of the ancient padlocks in the time that was left him, so the ape-man called to them to follow him as they were, and, snatching the gun and cartridge belt from the dead sentry, he led the now happy band out through the village gate and into the forest upon the far side of the clearing.

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The mate grabbed three cartridge belts and two Winchesters and skinned up to the cross-trees.

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120 Keith holster and matching cartridge belt. I was in heaven.

THE SINGLE-SIX: RIGHT TIME, RIGHT GUN ... THE REST IS HISTORY

Also, I had a habit of dropping the rifle to waist height near my belt, learned from years of pulling rounds from a cartridge belt and feeding them into the loading gate.

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He is armed with a LeMat revolver and carries it in a cross-draw holster with a huge Bowie knife on his right side and a cartridge belt holding several rounds of what appears to be lead-bulleted .38 Specials and four brass 20-gauge shotgun shells.

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The man, wearing a disguise and a cartridge belt around his shoulder, entered the Kinopolis in Viernheim at around 3 PM local time, RT reported.

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