musket ball
Old firearm projectile
A musket ball is the spherical lead projectile fired from a musket, the muzzle-loading firearm used from the 16th through 19th centuries.
Unlike modern bullets, which are elongated and fitted into cartridges, musket balls were smooth, round, and loaded separately with gunpowder.
The term appears in historical contexts: Surgeons extracted musket balls from wounded soldiers.
Globe-like in form
- caliberBore diameter or quality
- shotQuick liquor serving
- roundCurved like circle
- bulletFired metal projectile
slug · pellet · buckshot · grapeshot · trajectory · velocity · impact · penetration
Flint-sparked firearm mechanism
- matchlockCord-ignited gun mechanism
- arquebusEarly portable firearm
- musketoonShort-barreled cavalry firearm
- blunderbussFlare-muzzled scatter weapon
percussion · muzzleloader · smoothbore · carbine · Brown Bess · firelock · ramrod · powder horn
spherical
Globe-like in form
bullet · slug · pellet · buckshot · grapeshot · trajectory · velocity · impact · penetration · deformation
flintlock
Flint-sparked firearm mechanism
- matchlockCord-ignited gun mechanism
- arquebusEarly portable firearm
- musketoonShort-barreled cavalry firearm
blunderbuss · percussion · muzzleloader · smoothbore · carbine · Brown Bess · firelock · ramrod · powder horn · frizzen
lead
Dense metal, symbol Pb
Pb · dense · soft metal · deformed · flattened · oxidized · patina · recovered · archaeological · relic
infantry
Ground combat troops
skirmish · cavalry · artillery · bayonet · siege · dragoon · formation · line infantry · battlefield · Napoleonic
- Revolutionary WarGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross flag
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- projectilesbullet, bullets, arrow, rocket, rockets
- muzzleloader gearpowder horn, powder flask, ramrod, percussion caps, patches
- antiquesantiques, antique furniture, antique, antique coins, Greek vases
- historical weaponsmuskets, flintlock, flintlocks, pistols, bayonet
musket ballguided missile
Steerable self-propelled weapon
smart bomb · bullet · cruise missile · drone strike · rocket-propelled grenade