smoothbore

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

• 🇷🇺Описывает ствол огнестрельного оружия, не имеющий нарезов, обычно используемый для дробовиков или некоторых видов артиллерии.

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.

   🇷🇺Гладкоствольный

   Synonyms: unrifled

   Antonyms: 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.

• 🇷🇺Существительное, обозначающее огнестрельное оружие, такое как дробовик или мушкет, ствол которого не имеет нарезов, то есть внутренняя поверхность гладкая.

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.

   🇷🇺Гладкоствольное оружие

   Antonyms: rifled

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