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Feature of a shotgun barrel
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smoothbore
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel [syn: unrifled ] [ant: rifled ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context firearms English) having a bore with a smooth interior, ie. one that has not been rifled n. (context firearms English) a cannon, gun or other firearm that has an unrifled barrel.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gun \Gun\ (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., Gael., & LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] A weapon which throws or propels ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling . Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortars . The majority of shotguns are smoothbores and the term can be synonymous.
Usage examples of smoothbore.
More than two centuries earlier, the smoothbore had come into its own on the battlefield.
Loading a rifle or smoothbore required fine motor skills, and most soldiers arrived at a battlefield exhausted after miles of marching, after too little food, and after much sleep deprivation.
Also, if one is firing a rifle rather than a smoothbore, it is critical to put the minie ball in with its flat end first.
Sunday morning, after a grueling trek from Winchester, Captain John Daniel Imboden and his four smoothbore six-pounders bumbled into Manassas.
Some analysts have suggested that the Confederate guns, made up of eleven smoothbores and two rifled guns, were actually more suited to close work than the nine rifled and two smoothbore cannon of the Union batteries.
Kit peered judiciously into his smoothbore, which was as usual very clean, and ignored him.
Kit followed, a little hampered by his boots and the heavy smoothbore, but oddly, no longer aware that he was tired.
Ryan heard the puny crack of a smoothbore musket, but he had no idea where the ball had flown.
He had heard that the grooves spun the bullet which somehow made a rifle far more accurate than a shot from a smoothbore musket.
The sixteen-inch smoothbore belched fire with a blast of sound that was like the bellow of a giant.
Because they did not use rifles themselves, preferring the smoothbore musket that fired so much quicker, they took no precautions against the green-jacketed men who used cover so skilfully, and who could kill at three or four hundred paces.
He had been offered a smoothbore musket, and had scathingly rejected it.
The Baker rifle, with its seven grooves twisting a quarter turn in the barrel, had both a longer range and a deadlier accuracy than the smoothbore musket.
His luck was that the murderous farmer owned only an antique smoothbore black-powder musket, and was using it at extreme range, actually firing from the bedroom window of his weeping thirty-year-old daughter.
He also had a brace of smoothbore flintlock pistols at his belt, looking the same bore as the Hall musket.