smoothbore – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
smoothbore
adj.
smooth inside the barrel, having a barrel with no grooves or ridges (of firearms)
Smoothbore
A
smoothbore weapon is one that has a
barrel without
rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld
firearms to powerful
tank guns and large artillery
mortars. The majority of
shotguns are smoothbores and the term can be synonymous.
smoothbore
Adjective
1. of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel
(synonym) unrifled
Smoothbore
(n.)
A smoothbore firearm.
(a.)
Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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