Meaning Smoothbore
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SmoothboreA gun is smoothbore if the inside of the barrel is completely smooth. Smoothbore guns were used before rifled guns were developed. Although smoothbores were not as accurate and had a shorter range than rifled arms, there were still plenty of them in use during the Civil War.
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Smoothbore(n) a firearm that has no rifling(adj) of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel
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SmoothboreA gun, or its barrel(s), without rifling; a shotgun.
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SmoothboreA gun which is not rifled and whose barrel is completely 'smooth' all the way from breech to muzzle. The projectile is not spin-stabilised and hence the guns are relatively inaccurate. The m [..]
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