| 单词 | minié rifle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMinié rifle 1. attributive. Designating or relating to a firearm designed by Minié; (also) to an elongated bullet invented by Minié, which when fired is expanded by powder contained in an iron cup inserted in a cavity at its base. Esp. in Minié ball, Minié rifle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of three-o(h)-three1683 air rifle1801 yager1817 big bore1838 seventy-five1840 telescopic rifle1850 Minié rifle1851 needle rifle1856 pea rifle1856 Lancaster1857 six-shooting1858 Whitworth1858 Henry1861 polygroove1863 telescopic-sighted rifle1863 spencer1866 magazine rifle1867 Snider rifle1868 chassepot1869 Martini–Henry rifle1869 Winchester1871 Mauser rifle1872 Martini1876 saloon rifle1881 express1884 express rifle1884 Mannlicher1884 Mauser1887 Lee-Enfield1888 Flobert1890 pump gun1890 take-down1895 two-two1895 Ross rifle1901 hammer-rifle1907 sporter1907 French 751914 twenty-two1925 machine-gun rifle1941 assault rifle1950 assault weapon1968 kalashnikov1970 assault rifle1975 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > bullet > types of bullet pistol bullet?1591 musket bullet1598 musket ball1637 silver bullet1648 three-o(h)-three1683 pistol ball1689 musket shot1755 Biscayen1812 picket1848 rifle bolt1849 Minié ball1851 Minié1852 expanding bullet1859 navy bullet1873 two-two1895 dum-dum1897 Lee-Enfield bullet1899 rubber bullet1900 full-metal-jacket1913 round-nose1932 thirty-two1942 plastic bullet1945 baton round1968 1851 Daily News 9 Aug. 4/3 (advt.) Wilkinson and Son..manufacture as usual all kinds of guns, pistols, and rifles, especially the new long range minié rifles, and supply all kinds of naval and military accoutrements. 1852 Times 28 Feb. 4/6 The sergeants..will be able to acquire a thorough practical knowlege of the Minié musket or rifle. 1852 H. Martineau in Househ. Words 13 Mar. 583/1 We saw a specimen of the Minié ball (of which we are now hearing so much). 1852 Sci. Amer. 8 May 266/4 The vessels of Capt. Sir E. Belcher's Arctic expedition, are provided with..Minie rifles to bring down bird and deer. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 350 In 1847 and 1848 Captain Minié..proposed a hollow iron cup to fill up the cavity in Delvigne's bullet, and from this circumstance we get the name of Minié rifle. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) In 1851 a rifle musket of the Minié pattern was supplied to the English army... It was found to be defective in practice, and was superseded by the Enfield rifle in 1853. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 873/2 The Minié bullet..was made up into cartridges and lubricated as for the Minié rifle. 1957 G. Shirreffs Rio Bravo xv. 120 Maybe better, at that, for he can be so damned mad at his filthy way of life that he'll lick his weight in Minie balls. 1988 Sea Angling Q. Summer 54/2 The bullets used were made from pure lead, with shapes varying from spherical balls to what are known as ‘Minnie Balls’, more traditionally shaped, but much larger in size. 2002 M. E. Wagner et al. Libr. Congr. Civil War Desk Ref. (2009) vi. 485 The minié ball (more accurately, a minié bullet, since it was conical, i.e. bullet-shaped) was invented by Frenchman Claude Etienne Minié. < as lemmas |
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