minie ball

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Definition von minie ball im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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

Relevante Übersetzungen

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.

Minié balls

plural form of Minié ball

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minie Ball