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Minié balls

Minié balls is the plural of Minié ball.

Meaning of Minié ball

Noun

Minié ball (plural Minié balls)

  1. (historical) A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century.
    • So intense was the firing that at one point just behind the southern lines an oak tree nearly two feet thick was cut down by minié balls.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 730

Questions about Minié balls

What is Minié balls the plural of?
Minié balls is the plural of Minié ball.

Words near Minié balls in the dictionary

  1. minizones
  2. minizoo
  3. minizoos
  4. Minié
  5. Minié ball
  6. Minié balls
  7. Minié rifle
  8. Minié rifles
  9. Miniș
  10. Minjah
  11. Minjares

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