Definition of Gunstick

1. n. A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.

Definition of Gunstick

1. Noun. A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gunstick

1. a ramrod [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunstick

gunshy
gunsight
gunsights
gunslinger
gunslingers
gunslinging
gunslingings
gunsmith
gunsmitheries
gunsmithery
gunsmithies
gunsmithing
gunsmithings
gunsmiths
gunsmithy
gunstick (current term)
gunsticks
gunstock
gunstock deformity
gunstocks
gunstone
gunstones
gunter
gunter's line
gunter's quadrant
gunter's scale
gunter rig
gunter rigs
gunters
gunwale

Literary usage of Gunstick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Gymnasticks by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1828)
"The rifle is put to the ground, so that it is held by the knees, the barrel turned towards the body, the gunstick outwards, and the muzzle away from the ..."

2. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern by Horace Kephart (1922)
"... around Rip Shin Thicket and the gunstick Laurel, driving towards Clingman Dome and over into the bleak gulf, southwest of the Sugarland Mountains, ..."

3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"GUNSHOT, gun'shot. a. GUNSMITH, gun'smi//'. s. A man whose trade is to make guns. Made by the shot of a gun. gunstick ..."

4. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"The ramrod is familiarly called the gunstick, and whole represented as lock, stock, and barrel, which has come mean the whole of any important matter. ..."

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