smoothbore

Describes a firearm barrel that is not rifled, typically used for shotguns or certain types of artillery.

• 🌐يصف سلاحًا ناريًا ذا ماسورة ملساء من الداخل بلا أخاديد حلزونية، ويُستعمل عادة في البنادق الخرطوشية وبعض أنواع المدفعية.

1. Lacking rifling C1 formal

   Describes a firearm barrel that has a smooth inner surface without the spiral grooves (rifling) found in most modern guns.

   • Shotguns are typically smoothbore weapons.
   • The musket was a smoothbore firearm, making it less accurate at long range.
   • Smoothbore cannons were common in naval warfare before the 19th century.

   🌐أملس الماسورة

   المرادفات: unrifled

   الأضداد: rifled

• more smoothbore comparative form
• most smoothbore superlative form

A noun referring to a firearm, such as a shotgun or musket, whose barrel has no rifling, meaning the interior is smooth.

• 🌐اسم يشير إلى سلاح ناري كالبندقية أو المسكيت، يكون ماسورته أو ماسورتها الداخلية ملساء من دون أخاديد حلزونية.

1. Firearm without rifling C1 formal

   A type of gun or cannon whose barrel has a smooth interior surface, lacking the spiral grooves (rifling) found in most modern firearms.

   • The musket was a classic smoothbore used in the 18th century.
   • Hunters often use a smoothbore shotgun for bird hunting.
   • Early cannons were smoothbores, firing round projectiles.

   🌐سلاح أملس الجوف

   الأضداد: rifled

• smoothbores plural form
• smoothbores' possessive plural form
• smoothbore's possessive singular form