butt plate

noun

1. a protective plate on the butt end of a gunstock, usually of metal.

butt plate

noun

1. a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock

Example Sentences

In our time we were required to keep all their metal parts (except the butt-plate) as bright and shining as new silver dollars.

From Project Gutenberg

The stock length is 34.8 inches, which is the wooden portion from end to end with the butt plate attached.

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Bending over, Rand could see the imprint of the Mauser butt-plate on Rivers's jaw; on the butt-plate itself were traces of blood.

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In this area, the butt plate of the stock, this is a metal butt plate, you can see the jagged edge on it.

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"These" being the ones that you found in the butt plate crevice?

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