adjective
- having a smooth interior surface without rifling grooves
Usage: firearms
noun
- a firearm with a smooth interior barrel surface without rifling grooves
Usage: firearms
Examples
- The musket was a smoothbore weapon used by colonial soldiers.
- Smoothbore cannons were common in naval warfare during the 18th century.
- The shotgun is a modern example of a smoothbore firearm.
- Early smoothbore rifles were less accurate than later rifled versions.
- The museum displayed several smoothbore pistols from the Civil War era.
- Hunters often prefer smoothbore guns for shooting birds.
- The smoothbore design made the weapon easier to load quickly.