doghead

That's the last I can remember of Thunder — the dogneck gave no support and the doghead lolled over my arm.

Bitter Love Story 2009

That's the last I can remember of Thunder — the dogneck gave no support and the doghead lolled over my arm.

Bitter Love Story 2009

Sarah was behind the big man and she cocked the musket, grimacing with the force needed to drag back the doghead.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

He fired, and the golden tiger-mask doghead snapped forward onto the frizzen.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

He brought up the musket, folded the leather over the flint and seated it in the doghead, men looked up to see that the mass of the enemy was now just a hundred paces away.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

The Sergeant had unscrewed the musket's doghead, extracted the flint in its folded leather pad and now offered the scrap of stone to Captain Morris.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

The flint had skewed in the doghead and he released the screw, adjusted the leather patch that gripped the flint, then tightened it down.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Some of them had no flints, others had no leather flint-seatings, while one gun did not even have the doghead screw to hold the flint in place.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

They looked a beaten, ragtag unit, but they were still Riflemen and every Baker rifle had an oiled lock and, gripped in its doghead, a sharp-edged flint.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

On reaching a ledge of rock that overhung the lake a few feet, he paused and wheeled about; click went the doghead, just as the bear rose to grapple with him; another moment, and a bullet passed through the brute's heart, while the bold hunter sprang lightly on one side, to avoid the dash of the falling animal.

The Young Fur Traders 1859