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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
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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