Word Meanings - MINIEBALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

• BARRELEDBARRELLED
  Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
• Chargeant
  Burdensome; troublesome.
• Expanding
  of Expand
• Piecework
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
• BARRELPROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• Charges d'affaires
  of Charge d'affaires
• Expander
  Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• Plugged
  of Plug
• BULLETPROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• Charge d'affaires
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• Explosion
  The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
• Plugging
  of Plug
• CHARGEDAFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• Barreled
  of Barrel
• Chargeful
  Costly; expensive.
• Farther
  More remote; more distant than something else.
• Plugger
  One who, or that which, plugs.

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