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I saw the trooper aim a great horse-pistol that might have been a hundred years old, and I have no doubt that the bullet was as big as they fire in those ancient flint-lock muskets.

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  1. noun A usually metal projectile in the shape of a pointed cylinder or a ball that is expelled from a firearm, especially a rifle or handgun.
  2. noun Such a projectile in a metal casing; a cartridge.
  3. noun An object resembling a projectile in shape, action, or effect.
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  • I haven't six months' lease of life—I am going into consumption; and a bullet is as easy a death as spitting up my lungs piecemeal. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • The SEAL squeezed the trigger of his rifle, the suppressor at the end of the barrel hissed with the expulsion of gases, and the bullet was away. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
  • With a steady constant pressure, he began to squeeze the trigger, and with a loud report the bullet was away. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
  • At the perfect moment you must begin to move, because the bullet is about to come The Desert Eagle roared and Clio leaped, but not fast enough. —  Asimov's SF, July 2007
  • Perhaps the bullet was the reason for his ducking The concussion of the grenade caused the shape of the wall to change. —  045 - Resurrection Day
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  1. French boulette, diminutive of boule, ball, from Old French, from Latin bulla.

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  1. from French boulet, a cannon-ball, diminutive of Old French boule, a ball, later English bowl, of which bullet is thus practically a diminutive: see bowl.
 

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