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.
1 I stammered, and struck at it blindly with my gunstock .
2 With equal swiftness, Brady brought his gunstock to his shoulder.
3 Tom, starting up from a nap, gripped the gunstock .
4 On the instant a blow from Will's gunstock brought him to the ground, and Hutchings grabbed the revolver.
5 Already the Captain of the Wildcats had made a notch on his gunstock by killing Harmon McCoy in 1863.
6 But there was no mark of gunstock or other weapon where he sat; and why was he wearing boots?
7 But at the same time the painted defenders rose with a yell, and beat back their assailants with gunstock and hatchet.
8 His friends had put him out apprentice to a gunstock maker, to which he served out his time honestly and with a good character.
9 Turning gunstocks was, of course, only one of the many uses of Blanchard's copying lathe.
10 Only hear how the gunstocks beat against the door!
11 There was no key, but they beat it in with their gunstocks , whilst shriek after shriek came from within.
12 The white ants had not only eaten up bodily the box in which the guns were packed, but they had also eaten the gunstocks .
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