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Rifle ball   /rˈaɪfəl bɔl/   Listen
Rifle ball

noun
1.
A bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape.






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"Rifle ball" Quotes from Famous Books



... caught the silhouette of old Gideon Himes's uncouth figure relieved against the noonday sky, as he sprang high, both arms flung up, the hands empty and clutching, and pitched headlong to his face. But her mind scarcely registered the impression, for a rifle ball struck the shaly edge of a bluff under which the road at this point ran, and tore loose a piece of the slate-like rock, which glanced whirling into the tonneau and grazed Gray Stoddard's temple. He fell forward, crumpling down into the bottom of ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke



Words linked to "Rifle ball" :   bullet, slug



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