minié ball

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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
Minié balls
plural form of Minié ball
minié ball
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