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

choke collar
choke collars
choke damp
choke down
choke hold
choke off
choke pear
choke pears
choke price
choke the luff
choke up
chokeable
chokeberries
chokeberry
chokebore (current term)
chokebores
chokecherries
chokecherry
chokecherry tree
choked
choked disk
choked the chicken
chokedamp
chokedamps
chokedar
chokedars
chokehold
chokeholds
chokepoint

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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