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Definition von minié balls im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- plural form of Minié ball
- Minié ball
- A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century
Minié ball, judging from everybody else's wounds around that time.
- minie ball
- A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel