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min·ié ball  audio  (mn, mn-) KEY 

NOUN:
A conical rifle bullet used in the 19th century and designed with a hollow base that expanded when fired.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Claude Étienne Minié (1814?-1879), French army officer


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