Meaning of bungstarter | Babel Free

Definitions

A tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.

Examples

“But he had not yet learned to estimate these cool, languid, Southwestern knights of the bungstarter, who had the manners of an Earl of Pawtucket, ...”

“The Portuguese equivalent of bungstarter whiffed Angus Jones by an eyelash.”

“That's where the barkeeper took a bungstarter and killed a man who was shooting wild.”

“"Pat, let me have that keg," and the schoolteacher proceeded to hammer around the bung, in the way of the orthodox bungstarter.”

“When he came around the end of the bar he laid down the pistol and he was carrying a bungstarter in one hand.”

CEFR level