"Minié ball" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after one of its developers, Claude-Étienne Minié.",
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      "form": "Minié balls",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 730",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 112",
          "text": "Minié ball, judging from everybody else's wounds around that time.",
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      ],
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        "A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century."
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        "(historical) A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Minié rifle"
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        "Claude-Étienne Minié"
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  "word": "Minié ball"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Named after one of its developers, Claude-Étienne Minié.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Minié balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Minié ball (plural Minié balls)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Minié rifle"
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          "ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 730",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 112",
          "text": "Minié ball, judging from everybody else's wounds around that time.",
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      ],
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        "A muzzle-loading bullet with a hollow base, much used in the second half of the nineteenth century."
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