RIFLE BALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rifle ball mean? 

• RIFLE BALL (noun)
  The noun RIFLE BALL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RIFLE BALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIFLE BALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rifle ball" is a kind of...):

bullet; slug (a projectile that is fired from a gun)

 Context examples 

At the same moment, the fire was once more opened from the woods, and a rifle ball sang through the doorway and knocked the doctor's musket into bits.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)