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Definition of Chokebore
1. n. In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 2½ to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.
2. v. t. To provide with a chokebore.
Definition of Chokebore
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chokebore
Literary usage of Chokebore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Guns and Gunpowders: Comprising a Selection from Reports of by Frederick Toms (1897)
"Apd in order that the regularity of the The chokebore patterns were taken, as in
the previous experiments, with a 12-bore gnn by Messrs. ..."
2. Men of Mark in the World of Sport in New Zealand by Joseph Chadwick (1906)
"While at chokebore Lodge O'Brien met ]{. Derrett, KJ Mason, J. Kae, H. Homer,
Torn and Albert Lyford, and K. Gooseman. Lurline, then owned by Messrs. ..."
3. A Memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow by William Sturgis Bigelow (1900)
"He went into the refinement of guns, and owned one of the first, if not the very
first, chokebore ever made. Dr. Bigelow enjoyed recalling the many ..."
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