"percussion cap" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: percussion caps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} percussion cap (plural percussion caps)
  1. a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact Wikipedia link: percussion cap Translations (metal cap on muzzleloading firearms): càpsula fulminant (Catalan), fænghætte [common-gender] (Danish), slaghoedje (Dutch), nallihattu (Finnish), amorce (French), qaartartoq (Greenlandic), gyutacs (Hungarian), capsula a percussione (Italian), പൊട്ടാസ് (poṭṭāsŭ) (Malayalam), tingara (Maori), kapiszon [masculine] (Polish), espoleta (Portuguese), писто́н (pistón) [masculine] (Russian), ка́псюль (kápsjulʹ) (alt: уда́рный) [masculine] (Russian), pistón (Spanish), cápsula fulminante (Spanish), tändhatt [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-percussion_cap-en-noun-M~koeXhj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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