Definitions
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- noun A
tool for openingbarrels by removing thebung .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ferian was heading back toward the bar, carrying a heavy bungstarter.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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Ferian was heading back toward the bar, carrying a heavy bungstarter.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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Malone edged back against the bar, feeling behind him for a bottle or maybe a bungstarter.
Supermind Laurence M. Janifer 1967
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But he had not yet learned to estimate these cool, languid, Southwestern knights of the bungstarter, who had the manners of an Earl of Pawtucket, and who, when they disapproved of your presence, moved you with the silence and despatch of a chess automaton advancing a pawn.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
mutandis26 commented on the word bungstarter
A tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.
August 22, 2009