gunstock

Other forms of gunstock

plural

gunstocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gunstock

What does gunstock mean?

gunstock means "the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun".

How many syllables are in gunstock?

gunstock has 2 syllables: gun-stock. The stress falls on "gun".

What is another word for gunstock?

Close synonyms include stock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gunstock a common word?

gunstock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.