percussion cap

English

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

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
• Malayalam: പൊട്ടാസ് (poṭṭāsŭ)
• Maori: tingara
• Polish: kapiszon (pl) m
• Portuguese: espoleta (pt)
• Russian: писто́н (ru) m (pistón), (уда́рный) ка́псюль (ru) m (kápsjulʹ)
• Spanish: pistón, cápsula fulminante
• Swedish: tändhatt c