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Meanings of smoothbore in English

Of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel.

Synonyms
Examples for "unrifled"
Examples for "unrifled"
1
The diamond pin was in his scarf, and his pocket-book in his pocket, unrifled.
The Son of My Friend
2
One undesecrated, unrifled headland remains above the factories, on which is a venerable but abandoned church.
In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
3
Inaccurate at more than two yards, practically unrifled.
An ordinary decent criminal
4
Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival of the ship, the body showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled.
Moby Dick
5
On the whole, thought Talbot, glancing towards the great peak whose wilderness was still unrifled, that was the happiest night of his life.
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
Usage of smoothbore in English
1
Stranger, this yere game is sure a tight wad for a smoothbore.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
2
But my weapons, save my light smoothbore, were unfit for African game.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
3
With Rodman's gun, the muzzle-loading smoothbore was at the apex of its development.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
4
Ranges of United States smoothbore garrison guns of 1861
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
5
It was a long, yellow-stocked smoothbore, with a flintlock.
The Way of an Indian
6
Security forces had found hashish, heroin and opium as well as smoothbore guns and pistols, he said.
Reuters
7
By this time the youth had his hands on the smoothbore musket and his courage came back.
The Jungle Fugitives: A Tale of Life and Adventure in India / In...
8
Whoever makes use of this argument must certainly be in the habit of very random shooting with a smoothbore.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
9
But the bullet was of heavy type, fired from the old smoothbore musket and the shock had been severe.
The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
10
Neither was its relatively small and sometimes defective projectile as damaging to personnel as case or grape from a larger caliber smoothbore.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
11
How can he possibly get a correct aim with "ball" out of a smoothbore, without squinting along the barrel and taking the muzzle-sight accurately?
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
12
So with smoothbores, long range was never of great importance.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
13
But strangely enough, neither rifles nor smoothbores could destroy earthworks.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
14
How prettily Smoothbore would treat the subject, if it chanced to come in his way!
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
15
Ranges of United States naval smoothbores of 1866
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
16
His charge was scarcely less dead against the prisoner than had been Mr. Smoothbore's closing speech.
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
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