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ˈsmooth-bore
Also smoothbore, smooth bore.
[f. smooth a. + bore n.1]
1. A cannon or gun of which the barrel is made with a smooth or unrifled bore.
In quot. 1848 with punning allusion to bore n.2
1812Niles' Weekly Reg. II. 398/1 It was the best smooth bore he ever shot with in his life. 1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckians in N.Y. I. 21 Your smooth bores waste a deal of powder and lead. 1848Lowell Fable for Critics 1229 I divide bores myself, in the manner of rifles Into two great divisions..;—There's your smooth-bore and screw-bore [etc.]. 1859‘Stonehenge’ Shot Gun 306 A ball from a smooth bore (that is, from a barrel not rifled in any way). 1897Century Mag. Aug. 587 A powerful double-turreted monitor, carrying two 18-inch smooth-bores.
fig.1883Payn Thicker than Water xxiii, One thought expelling another in the narrow smoothbore of her mind.
2. attrib.
a. Having a smooth or unrifled bore.
1799in Deb. Congress U.S. (1851) 7th Congress 2 Sess., App. 1402 One had a rifle, and the other a smooth-bore piece. 1859Musketry Instr. 31 During the passage of the spherical ball through the smooth-bore barrel. 1860Tennent Story Guns (1864) 228 These trials were made with the old smooth-bore cannon. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 65 For many years the arm of the British soldier was a smooth⁓bore musket.
b. Adapted for guns having a smooth bore.
1859F. A. Griffiths Artill. Man. (1862) 203 Smooth-bore projectiles.
Hence ˈsmooth-bored a., = prec. 2 a.
1859F. A. Griffiths Artill. Man. (1862) 203 Smooth-bored guns. 1890Nature 18 Sept., At short distances..the smooth⁓bored guns were reasonably accurate. |