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miniball

miniball is the misspelling 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 miniball

What is miniball the misspelling of?
Miniball is the misspelling of Minié ball.

Words near miniball in the dictionary

  1. miniaturizers
  2. miniaturizes
  3. miniaturizing
  4. minibag
  5. minibags
  6. miniball
  7. miniband
  8. minibands
  9. minibar
  10. minibarcode
  11. minibarcodes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miniball (page history and authors); Minié ball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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