minié ball
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Minié ball, judging from everybody else's wounds around that time."
- "Of course, by then the Rebs had shot me about thirty times. [...] He traced the minié ball scar with his finger."