Minié ball

English thumb|Some Minié balls Etymology Named after one of its developers, Claude-Étienne Minié. Noun en historical A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century. en 1988 James McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom 730 Oxford 2004 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. en 2006 Thomas Pynchon Against the Day 112 Vintage 2007 Minié ball, judging from everybody else's wounds around that time. en 2017 Rick Riordan Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead 133 Disney · Hyperion 2017 Of course, by then the Rebs had shot me about thirty times. [...] He traced the minié ball scar with his finger. Related terms en Minié rifle en eponyms