BANDOLIER, or BANDOLEER (from Fr. bandouliere, Ital. bandoliera, a little band)

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BANDOLIER, or BANDOLEER (from Fr. bandouliere, Ital. bandoliera, a little band) , a

belt

worn over the

shoulder

SHOULDER (in O.E. sculder, cognate with Ger. Schulter, Dutch schouder, Swed. skuldra, &c; the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
is unknown)

, particularly by soldiers to carry cartridges. In the 17th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

wooden cases were hung to the

belt

to contain powder charges. The

modern

MODERN

bandolier

BANDOLIER, or BANDOLEER (from Fr. bandouliere, Ital. bandoliera, a little
band
- BAND
)

carries the cartridges either in loops sewn to the belt, or in small pouches, similarly attached, containing strips of several cartridges. It has been extensively adopted in the

British

BRITISH

army, especially for mounted troops.

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