Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The handle of a gun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stock or wooden support in which the barrel of a gun is fixed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The handle of a
handgun . - noun The rear part of a
rifle orshotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
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Examples
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"We kept as many features, such as gunstock corners, to keep the house as authentic as possible.
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While I laud the good folk at GunBroker for their niceness in supporting Breast Cancer research (after all can't loose the front porch, everybody likes the front porch) WHY does anybody think an ugly pink gunstock will encourage fundraising?
GunBroker.com Fights Breast Cancer With Pink Rifle Auction 2009
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Anyone had experience buying walnut gunstock blanks or lumber (any species) from Goby Walnut or Wrights Gunstocks in the Portland, Oregon Area?
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Anyone had experience buying walnut gunstock blanks or lumber (any species) from Goby Walnut or Wrights Gunstocks in the Portlan | Field & Stream
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Beat on her for twenty minutes with that broken gunstock (she did it on purpose).
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It is the place to get fishing permits and marriage licenses—and to pick up a quick education in historic joinery: The 18th-century gunstock posts and exposed framing of hewn white oak put sheetrock and two-by-fours to shame.
Town Hall Assembly Julie V. Iovine 2011
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The Old Well belongs to the citizens of North Carolina and if someone wants that image on a gunstock then fine with me.
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While I laud the good folk at GunBroker for their niceness in supporting Breast Cancer research (after all can't loose the front porch, everybody likes the front porch) WHY does anybody think an ugly pink gunstock will encourage fundraising?
GunBroker.com Fights Breast Cancer With Pink Rifle Auction 2009
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The Old Well belongs to the citizens of North Carolina and if someone wants that image on a gunstock then fine with me.
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Beat on her for twenty minutes with that broken gunstock (she did it on purpose).
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