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Bandolier   Listen
noun
Bandolier, Bandoleer  n.  
1.
A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.
2.
One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. (Obs.)





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"Bandolier" Quotes from Famous Books



... ill-natured but very frowzy Boer commandant, I was gloomily taking off the saucy warm spotted waistcoat knitted for me by my sister, I noticed our friends of the previous evening in very animated and friendly conversation with the burghers, and "Pappa" was, curiously enough, carrying a rifle and bandolier and my new field-glasses. He was laughing and pointing towards something lying on the ground, through which he finally put his foot. This, to my horror, I recognized as my unhappy camera. Here, I suppose, ...
— The Defence of Duffer's Drift • Ernest Dunlop Swinton


Words linked to "Bandolier" :   cartridge belt


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