- stock, gunstock - 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; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock"
--1 is a kind of handle, grip, handgrip, hold; support
--1 is a part of
--1 has particulars: pistol grippistol, handgun, side arm, shooting iron; gun; artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance; machine gun