Cartouch

Cartouch (Fr. cartouche, Ital. cartoccio, 'a roll of paper;') cartridge is a mere corruption), formerly a name for a portable wooden case for holding cannon-balls or musket-bullets. A gun cartouch now means merely a waterproof canvas case for holding the cartridges of a field battery, one to each ammunition-box. The cartridge-box carried by the soldiers used to be called a cartouch in England, and still is in France.