cartridge clip

American  

noun

1. a metal frame or container holding cartridges for a magazine rifle or automatic pistol.

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cartridge clip British  

noun

1. a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm

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Example Sentences

In the truck’s cab, police found an automatic 7.65-millimeter pistol, a cartridge clip, and several cartridges.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2016

He loaded it with a cartridge clip, and told me that all I would have to do then was squeeze the trigger release.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

There was his automatic pistol, intact, but the precaution had been taken of slipping out the cartridge clip.

From Gold Out of Celebes by Dingle, Aylward Edward

In a groove where the butt was heaviest, a cartridge clip held some twenty electric bullets that, by means of a spring, automatically took their places in the barrel of the rifle.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.

Fumbling among the numerous objects contained in the suit-case, his fingers encountered at length a cartridge clip.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter