Damascus barrel

noun

Definition of Damascus barrel

: a shotgun barrel for use especially with black-powder cartridges usually made of strips or rods of iron or steel coiled in a spiral to form a tube and with a speckled or mottled pattern that often runs at right angles to the bore — compare wire-wound gun

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