Rifle
Rifle noun - A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.
Smoothbore and rifle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smoothbore" instead a noun "Rifle".
Smoothbore
Smoothbore noun - A firearm that has no rifling.
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Rifle and smoothbore are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rifle" instead a noun "Smoothbore".
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- Also fun is "recoilless rifle", which almost always refers to a smoothbore recoilless gun.
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It featured 2 smoothbore barrels for 12.5x70mm rounds (about 40-gauge) and a rifle barrel for 5.45x39mm ammo.
Source: Mix-and-Match Weapon - And it gets even more fun with translations- the Russian word typically translated as "rifle" could be more correctly translated as "shoulder-fired longarm", leading to shotguns, which are smoothbore, being termed as "rifles", entirely correctly from the translator's point of view.
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Smoothbore and Rifle. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rifle/smoothbore
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