MINIÉ BALL


Meaning of MINIÉ BALL in English

ˈminē-, -ēˌā- noun

Usage: sometimes capitalized M

Etymology: after Claude Étienne Minié died 1879 French army officer

: a rifle bullet having a cylindrical body, conical head, and hollow base and much used in the middle of the 19th century

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