ridge.

CARTRIDGE-BOX. A cylindrical wooden box with a lid sliding upon a handle
of small rope, just containing one cartridge, and used for its safe
conveyance from the magazine to the gun--borne to and fro by
powder-monkeys (boys) of old. The term is loosely applied to the
ammunition pouch.

CARUEL. _See_ CARVEL.

CARVED WORK. The ornaments of a ship which are wrought by the carver.

CARVEL. A light lateen-rigged vessel of small burden, formerly used by
the Spaniards and Portuguese. Also, a coarse sea-blubber, on which
turtles are said to feed.

CARVEL-BUILT. A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and
smooth, the edges laid close to each other, and caulked to make them
water-tight: in contradistinction to clinker-built, where they overlap
each other.

CARY. _See_ MOTHER CARY'S CHICKEN. _Procellaria pelagica_.

CASCABLE. That generally convex part of a gun which terminates the
breech end of it. The term includes the usual button which is connected
to it by the neck of the cascable.

CASCADE. A fall of water from a considerable height, rather by
successive stages than in a single mass, as with a cataract.

CASCO. A rubbish-lighter of the Philippine Islands.

CASE. The outside planking of the ship.

CASE-BOOK. A register or journal in which the surgeon records the cases
of all the sick and wounded, who are placed under medical treatment.

CASEMATE. In fortification, a chamber having a vaulted roof capable of
resisting vertical fire, and affording embrasures or loop-holes to
contribute to the defence of the place: without these it would be merely
a bomb-proof.

CASERNES. Often considered as synonymous with _barracks_; but more
correctly small lodgments erected between the ramparts and houses of a
fortified town, to ease the inhabitants by quartering soldiers there,
who are also in better condition for duty than if living in various
parts.

CASE-SHOT, COMMON. Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters
if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a number of small iron balls,
varying in weight and number, packed in a cylindrical tin case fitting
the bore of the gun from which it is to be fired. Burrel, langrage, and
other irregular substitutes, may be included under the term. Spherical
case-shot are officially called _shrapnel shell_ (which see).

CASHIERED. Sentenced by a court-martial to be dismissed the service. By
such sentence an officer is rendered ever after incapable of serving