gunstick
English
Alternative forms
- gun-stick
Etymology
gun + stick
Noun
gunstick (plural gunsticks)
- A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
Translations
stick to ram down the charge — see ramrod
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gunstick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- tuckings