minié balls

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plural form of Minié ball
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.

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
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