minié ball

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Definition of minié ball in English English dictionary

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.

Related Terms

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

Minié balls

plural form of Minié ball

Hyphenation

minié Ball