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Cartel   /kɑrtˈɛl/   Listen
noun
Cartel  n.  
1.
(Mil.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.
2.
A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. (Obs.) "He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel.,"
Cartel ship (or Cartel), a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy; a ship beating a flag of truce and privileged from capture.



verb
Cartel  v. t.  To defy or challenge. (Obs.) "You shall cartel him."





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"Cartel" Quotes from Famous Books



... at a certain hour in front of the mairie of the Seventeenth arrondissement, for the purpose of having his brains removed with a revolver. PAUL declined to go, however. The Mairie mentioned in the cartel was not the one for PAUL. Probably he would have gone to VIRGINIA, had he been invited to do so; but never a MAIRIE for the faithful PAUL. And might have come by way of New-York, where he would soon have grown so used to having his brains removed with a revolver ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various
 
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... on the mind. Arrival of a cartel, and of letters from India. Letter of the French marine minister. Restitution of papers. Applications for liberty evasively answered. Attempted seizure of private letters. Memorial to the minister. Encroachments made at Paris on the Investigator's discoveries. Expected attack ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 • Matthew Flinders
 
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... is the good duke's pleasure. When I sent him my cartel I made it plain that I had little time on my hands, as I was anxious, on account of the king's fire-new zeal against duelling, to cross the frontier as speedily as might be. I knew the duke was staying on his estates near by, and I suggested, with a fine show of gravity, ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
 
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... with a definite notice that we will recognize no paroles given to our prisoners by the rebels as extending beyond a prohibition against fighting them, though I wish your opinion upon it, based both upon the general law and our cartel. I wish to avoid violations of the law and bad faith. Answer as quickly as possible, as the thing, if done at all, should be ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
 
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... been intended to continue the exchange much further, but a dispute arising concerning the treatment of negro prisoners, the operations of the cartel were arrested, and the exchange suspended. She found, therefore, no further need of her services in this direction, and ...
— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett
 
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