Significados de smoothbore em inglês

Stranger, this yere game is sure a tight wad for a smoothbore.

But my weapons, save my light smoothbore, were unfit for African game.

With Rodman's gun, the muzzle-loading smoothbore was at the apex of its development.

Ranges of United States smoothbore garrison guns of 1861

It was a long, yellow-stocked smoothbore, with a flintlock.

Security forces had found hashish, heroin and opium as well as smoothbore guns and pistols, he said.

By this time the youth had his hands on the smoothbore musket and his courage came back.

Whoever makes use of this argument must certainly be in the habit of very random shooting with a smoothbore.

But the bullet was of heavy type, fired from the old smoothbore musket and the shock had been severe.

Neither was its relatively small and sometimes defective projectile as damaging to personnel as case or grape from a larger caliber smoothbore.

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?

So with smoothbores, long range was never of great importance.

But strangely enough, neither rifles nor smoothbores could destroy earthworks.

How prettily Smoothbore would treat the subject, if it chanced to come in his way!

Ranges of United States naval smoothbores of 1866

His charge was scarcely less dead against the prisoner than had been Mr. Smoothbore's closing speech.