gun-stock

Leslie waited, standing stockily with legs apart, gun-stock resting on his hip, his eyes, intense and gleaming, following the birds.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

A gun-stock is, perhaps, as irregular a shape as the ingenuity of man could devise, and as well calculated to bid defiance to every attempt at applying machinery to the work of fashioning it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

He nodded gayly to his employer before he flung himself into a chair, his gun-stock between his knees, his great brown hands clasped behind his head.

The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Elma Ehrlich Levinger

Such is Mr. Fownes 'description of the process of clarification; to which I will venture to add, upon the authority of those who have experienced its good effects, the joint use of the mucilage of the _Guazuma ulmifolia_, or gun-stock tree, as it is popularly termed in Nevis from the use to which its timber has been applied.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Next door a gunsmith was at work in his little shop sand-papering a gun-stock: a sheep was penned inside against the Great Feast, and more sheep in the grocer's beyond.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

"I see the yellow eyes!" whispered Bob, beginning to bring his gun-stock nearer to his shoulder.

The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave James Carson

Better than any bayonet was a bit of iron or a broken gun-stock, or a sharp knife.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Something smote him heavily, at last -- whether a hoof or a gun-stock he could not tell -

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

A fresh thought locked his hand like steel about his gun-stock.

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

But he kissed my shoulder where the gun-stock had bruised it, and helped me dress.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912