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Definition of Gunstocks
1. gunstock [n] - See also: gunstock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunstocks
Literary usage of Gunstocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"An effectual recipe, however, for polishing gunstocks is to varnish them precisely
like the pannels of a carriage. If a stock, which in other respects suits ..."
2. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"gunstocks Manufacture of production and custom gunstocks has long been centered
in the ... These blanks are shipped to plants where gunstocks are produced. ..."
3. Firearms in American History by Charles Winthrop Sawyer (1920)
"Why, if you could do that you could turn gunstocks on a lathe, and make your
fortune. ... gunstocks and such have ever since been made ..."
4. Early Records of the City and County of Albany: And Colony of Resselaerswyck by Albany County (N.Y.), Albany co., N. Y., Jonathan Pearson, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1918)
"... gunstocks, and when any gunstocks are to be made for the 1 Voor-huys; which
Professor Pearson translates as " front room. ..."
5. A United States Supreme Court and United States Circuit Court of Appeals by William Draper Lewis, United States Supreme Court (1897)
"It did not appear that the gunstocks had formed part of completed guns in Europe,
and the question of the importation of the barrels was not involved, ..."
6. Farm Woodlands and the War by Henry Solon Graves (1918)
"In the search for material for gunstocks and airplane propellers, the country
was obliged to turn largely to the farm woodlands, for there is to be found ..."
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