percussion cap

English

Noun

percussion cap (plural percussion caps)

a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact

Translations

metal cap on muzzleloading firearms

Catalan: càpsula fulminant
Danish: fænghætte c
Dutch: slaghoedje (nl)
Finnish: nallihattu
French: amorce (fr)
Greenlandic: qaartartoq
Hungarian: gyutacs (hu)

Italian: capsula a percussione
Maori: tingara
Polish: kapiszon (pl)
Portuguese: espoleta (pt)
Russian: писто́н (ru) m (pistón), (уда́рный) ка́псюль (ru) m (kápsjulʹ)
Spanish: pistón, cápsula fulminante
Swedish: tändhatt

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