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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
Answer for the clue "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 ", 8 letters:
gunstock
Word definitions for gunstock in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunstock \Gun"stock`\, n. The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock" [syn: stock ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The handle of a handgun. 2 The rear part of a rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gunstock may refer to: Stock (firearms) , a part of a gun Gunstock war club , a weapon resembling gunstocks Place names in the United States: Gunstock Knob , a summit in West Virginia Gunstock Mountain , a New Hampshire mountain Gunstock Mountain Resort ...
Usage examples of gunstock.
They claimed that since Tomahawk was furnishin’ one-half of the attraction, and Gunstock the other half, the razee ought to be throwed at Perdition.
Bat O'Tool, happenin’ to pass through Gunstock, consented to fight anybody which would meet him.
O'Tool stalked back to his corner, and the Gunstock boys was dancing and hugging each other, and the Tomahawk fellows was growling in their whiskers and fumbling for guns and bowie knives.
I trusts that you jackasses from Gunstock realizes the blackness and hellishness of their hearts!
The Gunstock braves turned frothing on the Tomahawk warriors, and the men from Perdition, yelping with glee, pulled their guns and begun fanning the crowd indiscriminately, which give back their fire.
Old man Braxton inside was scared and started yelling bloody murder, and about that time a lot of men come up to investigate the explosion which had stopped the three-cornered battle between Perdition, Tomahawk and Gunstock, and they thought I was the cause of everything, and they all started shooting at me as I rode off.
The sound of the impact, metal gunstock crunching flesh and bone, was to stay with Joe for a long time.
He undamped his hand from the gunstock and absently stretched out the fingers.
Then the assassin clubbed him to death with the gunstock and ran away.
Scattered around it were wooden gunstocks, bullet molds, iron rods to be bored into weapon barrels.
What passed for field-pieces were mounted on great timbers, like oversized gunstocks, and hauled on four-wheel carts.
Both men settled in, unfolded the bipod legs on their gunstocks, and started surveying the target building.