Bungstarter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.

    "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, ..."

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"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, ..."

Etymology

From bung + starter.

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