Crossword-Solution: SMOOTHBORE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Smoothbore | a. | Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. |
| Smoothbore | n. | A smoothbore firearm. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SMOOTHBORE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feature of an unrifled firearm | 1 answer |
| Not rifled, as a firearm | 1 answer |
| Kind of firearm | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SMOOTHBORE (5)
Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.
Many men who are capital shots at target-practice cannot touch a deer, and cannot even use the rifle as a rifle at live game, but actually knock the sights out and use it as a smoothbore.
Whoever makes use of this argument must certainly be in the habit of very random shooting with a smoothbore.
How can he possibly get a correct aim with "ball" out of a smoothbore, without squinting along the barrel and taking the muzzle-sight accurately? The fact is, that many persons fire so hastily at game that they take no sight at all, as though they were snipe-shooting with many hundred grains of shot in the charge.
Unless the grooves he tolerably deep, they will not hold the ball when a heavy charge is behind it; it quits the grooves, strips its belt, and flies out as though fired from a smoothbore.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2017).