bung-starter

The kender pocketed a bung-starter, a small flask of wine, and several other interesting objects and slipped out the back door into the alley just as Givrak entered through the front and roared something about a “god-cursed, lying kender” who™d lived too long for his own, or anyone else™s, good.

Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

A bartender started to swing a bung-starter, and found himself flying through the air toward a table.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Roughnecks enter eternally with fresh kegs; the thud of the mallet never ceases; the rude clamour of the bung-starter is as the rattle of departing time itself.

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

_Aurora's_ new crew, and would've got 'em, too, but Argand, inside the bar, picks up a bung-starter, sneaks down and gives Sam and Archie a couple of slick taps over the ear, and down they went -- just slid feet first away from the bar and on to the floor, flat -- and as they slid

Wide Courses 1912

The barkeeper took a bung-starter and felled him as flat as a felled seam -- and all present agreed that it served him right.

Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910

Vinton is sittin 'there with his chin on his necktie, lookin' like someone had beaned him with a bung-starter.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

A brawny Irishman, mad with the joy of unlimited riot and whiskey, was on top of the counter impartially cracking the heads of all men within reach with the blows of a big wooden bung-starter.

Under Fire Charles King 1888

An ambulance had carted off to the hospital four or five, whose battered skulls bore witness to the hammering powers of big Milligan and his bung-starter.

Under Fire Charles King 1888

A saloon-keeper rushes out with a bung-starter and hits a sailor on the head.

David Lockwin—The People's Idol John McGovern 1883

I told Oppenheimer, and he got out a wooden bung-starter, and said he could clean out the whole party.

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 1878