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Gunstock   Listen
noun
gunstock  n.  The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gunstock" Quotes from Famous Books



... workbench, planin' things; er buildin' little traps To ketch birds; galvenizin' rings; er graftin' plums, perhaps. Make anything! good as the best!—a gunstock—er a flute; He whittled out a set o' chesstmen one't ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley

... and tramp of feet at the outside door interrupted her. The marauders had come. The door was barred and this having been tested, there was a hail of gunstock blows upon it with orders to open and blasphemous threats as to the consequences of refusal. There was a dead silence within, but for Mrs. Edwards' hollow whisper, "Don't open." With staring eyes and mouths apart the terrified ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy



Words linked to "Gunstock" :   pistol grip, support, handgun, ordnance, side arm, hold, machine gun, grip, artillery, stock, heavy weapon, gun



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