- Minie rifle
- Minie rifle Min"ie ri"fle A rifle adapted to minie balls. [1913 Webster]
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Minie rifle
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Minié rifle — French Army P1851 Minié rifle. British Army … Wikipedia
Minié ball — Various types of Minié balls. The four on the right are provided with Tamisier ball grooves for aerodynamic stability … Wikipedia
Minié — Claude Étienne Minié Claude Étienne Minié (13 février 1804 à Paris 14 décembre 1879 à Paris)[1] était un inventeur et un officier de l armée française. Il est célèbre pour avoir conçu, dans les années 1840, le fusil Minié qui permettait un… … Wikipédia en Français
minie ball — kind of rifle bullet, 1853, named for its inventor, French army officer Claude Étienne Minié (1814 1879), who designed it 1847 8 … Etymology dictionary
Minié ball — [min′ē, min′ē ā΄] n. [after C. E. Minié (1814 79), Fr inventor] a cone shaped rifle bullet used in the 19th cent … English World dictionary
Minie ball — Min ie ball [From the inventor, Captain Mini[ e], of France.] A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Rifle — A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ( rifling ) cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called lands, which make contact with the… … Wikipedia
Minié, Claude-Étienne — ▪ French military officer born Feb. 13, 1804, Paris, France died Dec. 14, 1879, Paris French army officer who solved the problem of designing a bullet for the muzzle loading rifle. The bullet became known as the Minié ball. After… … Universalium
rifle — rifle1 /ruy feuhl/, n., v., rifled, rifling. n. 1. a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory. 2. one of the grooves. 3. a cannon with… … Universalium
minié ball — noun Etymology: Claude Étienne Minié died 1879 French army officer Date: 1852 a rifle bullet with a conical head used in muzzle loading firearms … New Collegiate Dictionary
