a container holding a spool of photographic film, a quantity of ink, or other item or substance, designed for insertion into a mechanism (胶卷盒或墨水囊等的)可插型容器,套筒,套壳 ■a casing containing a charge and a bullet or shot for small arms or an explosive charge for blasting 弹壳,弹药筒 ■a component carrying the stylus on the pickup head of a record player (唱机的)唱头,(拾音器的)心座
语源
late 16th cent.: from French cartouche (feminine noun), from Italian cartoccio (see cartouche)