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Definition of Musket ball
1. Noun. A solid projectile that is shot by a musket. "They had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musket Ball
Literary usage of Musket ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"This ball weighed twelve drachms, the weight of the ordinary musket-ball being
only eight drachms, making a difference between them of half an ounce. ..."
2. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"Tradition of a musket-ball.— Draw-bridge and gateway in the olden times.—Tradition
of a cannon-ball.—Both ball and cannon discovered. ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1859)
"He is gone back to Rhode Island with the gout in his stomach, occasioned by a
musket ball, and probably will rob no more.1 ..."
4. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1859)
"Charles W ilkins, private RM, musket ball wound of thigh ; severe, doing well.
... Thomas Lemon, Colonel KM, musket ball wound of left side of head; ..."
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