musket ball

1. 1.

   a solid projectile that is shot by a musket

   “they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball”

   Synonymsball

   Broadershot

Questions about musket ball

What does musket ball mean?

musket ball means "a solid projectile that is shot by a musket".

What is another word for musket ball?

Close synonyms include ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musket ball a common word?

musket ball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.