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Значения термина smoothbore на английском

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

Использование термина smoothbore на английском
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Stranger, this yere game is sure a tight wad for a smoothbore.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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But my weapons, save my light smoothbore, were unfit for African game.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
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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...
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Ranges of United States smoothbore garrison guns of 1861
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
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It was a long, yellow-stocked smoothbore, with a flintlock.
The Way of an Indian
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Security forces had found hashish, heroin and opium as well as smoothbore guns and pistols, he said.
Reuters
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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...
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Whoever makes use of this argument must certainly be in the habit of very random shooting with a smoothbore.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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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
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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...
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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
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So with smoothbores, long range was never of great importance.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
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But strangely enough, neither rifles nor smoothbores could destroy earthworks.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
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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
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Ranges of United States naval smoothbores of 1866
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
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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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