rifle ball

1. 1.

   a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape

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Questions about rifle ball

What does rifle ball mean?

rifle ball means "a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape".

Is rifle ball a common word?

rifle 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.