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smoothbore::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | unrifled |
Examples of smoothbore
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Both muskets and fusils were smoothbore which lessened their accuracy and range.
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Pistols were usually smoothbore although some rifled pistols were produced.
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Spin-stabilised rounds may be fired from a smoothbore or a rifled barrel.
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The ball in smoothbore firearms was quite loose in the barrel.
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For this reason, regular American units used smoothbore muskets.
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All three prototypes were armed with 120 mm smoothbore cannons.
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Historically, a long smoothbore firearm was known as a musket.
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Smoothbore artillery refers to weapons that are not rifled.
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Attackers would have to endure one volley of inaccurate smoothbore musket fire before they could close with the defenders.
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- A firearm that has no rifling
- Unrifled: of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel
- A smoothbore weapon is one which has a barrel without rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortars.
- A gun barrel or gun barrel section that does not have any rifling.
- A gun is smoothbore if the inside of the barrel is completely smooth. Smoothbore guns were used before rifled guns were developed. Although smoothbores were not as accurate and had a shorter range than rifled arms, there were still plenty of them in use during the Civil War.
- Another name for shotguns; shotguns generally have no rifling in the barrel.
- A double entendre dating from the American CIVIL WAR forward, which means both a gun (eg: musket, SHOTGUN, cannon, etc) with a smooth bore (a barrel not rifled with "lands and grooves"), and a mostly amiable and competent MIL-PERS who is nonetheless tiresome or dull. ...
- Type of musket with a smooth barrel, able to shoot round lead balls, highly inaccurate
- (n.) A gun barrel which is not rifled. Shotguns are smoothbored. So is the 120mm cannon on the M1A1 Abrams tank.
