Minié ball

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century. historical
    — 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.

词形变化

Minié balls plural

词源

Named after one of its developers, Claude-Étienne Minié.
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