subsidiary charges

Coenders proposed the use of electrically activated charges to eliminate the problem of the premature ignition of the subsidiary charges experienced by previous multi-chamber guns.

Due to faulty obturation, the flash from the original propellant charge bypassed the projectile and prematurely ignited the subsidiary charges before the shell passed them, slowing the shell down.

Subsidiary charges related to a kind of illegal immigrant status, since the characters in the pictures appeared to be African while the setting, with its tigers and its ghee, was clearly Indian, and there was also trouble over Sambo's gross behavior in eating no fewer than 169 pancakes.

To make a long story at least a little shorter, he got on the telephone, made four or five quick calls, and then came back with the news that Joubert was going to be arraigned the following day in Cumberland County District Court on a number of subsidiary charges - mostly theft.