What is "smoothbores"

Usage examples of "smoothbores".

The duller sound of smoothbores followed as the brass and cast-iron cannon salvaged from storage all over Old Residence cut loose, firing iron roundshot.

Of course, there had been fireseed smuggling going on for centuries, but there were few smoothbores in the Middle Kingdoms—and even fewer gunsmiths to make new ones.

Without any other recourse to obtain fireseed for their smoothbores and guns, the opponents of Styphoni supported armies are quickly dispatched.

Each musketeer was carrying two or three loaded smoothbores taken from a Hostigos armory filled to the rafters with the loot of Kalvan's victory at Chothros.

The dragoon pikemen were fitting themselves into the Ktethroni lines wherever they could, while the arquebusiers and musketeers darted along the flanks and between the files, firing their smoothbores as targets presented themselves.

Then the smoothbores started up again, an irregular spattering from the Ktemnoi as they desperately let fly, followed by solid volleys from the Hostigi.

I know the theory, with a little time I could set up a rifling lathe for some of the big smoothbores we found here.

They had also made it impossible to move the big smoothbores in a time of less than hours.

The smoothbores were much less effective than the Civil Government field guns, and slower to load—but there were several hundred of them on the walls.

The Brigade had armed its men with muzzle loaders, but rifled percussion muskets, not the flintlock smoothbores that had been the best his people could make or maintain.

The smoothbores were much less effective than the Civil Government field guns, and slower to load — but there were several hundred of them on the walls.

But at close range the shotgun blasts of lead balls from the Squadron smoothbores were taking effect.

He could hear their howling, and a flurry of blurred whumps from Squadron smoothbores as the animals were put down before they turned on the nearest human.

Her guns had been replaced ten years after the war with a newer battery consisting of two eleven-inch smoothbores, four nine-inch smoothbores and two twenty-pound rifled barrels.

The nine-inch smoothbores added to the geysers erupting around the target.