Abdelmonem Samir Apr 15, 2013:

توضيح Stock:
The rear wooden, metal, or plastic "handle" or "support" of a rifle, a pistol, or an automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.

American Heritage Dictionary

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/stock

Stock
noun: 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

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn?cmd=wn&word=stock

وعلى ذلك، أعتقد أن استخدام المورد الإلكتروني لكلمة "بندقية" في تعبير "مقبض البندقية" لا يشير إلى
rifle shoulder butt
ولكن إلى الأسلحة النارية عمومًا، أو:
any gun handle

والخلاصة أن "ستوك" تعني مقبض الأسلحة النارية عمومًا وعقب بالنسبة للبنادق، وفي السياق هنا هي عقب البندقية بالفعل

والله أعلم

Ahmed Kamal (asker) Apr 13, 2013:

شكراً جزيلاً , كنتُ أظن أن هناك معنى آخر

Abdallah Ali Apr 13, 2013:

Stock and ear protection Hi Ahmad,

Your question is about “stock”. You didn’t say that you know the term and that you are confused about its relation with ear protective equipment.

Anyway, for info, a sniper places their cheek on their hand (thumb) which firmly holds the stock when firing each shot. Keeping the head, thumb and rifle in firm contact (AKA stock weld) renders better shot accuracy and also enables them (head, thumb and rifle) to recoil as one unit, which serves better, quicker recovery between fired rounds.

“Clumsy ear muffs”, probably as part of a mask, don’t enjoy the same specifications/advantages of the product at hand. Loose contact between the head (including a mask with ear protection) and the stock results in cracking those masks and breaking their seal, which renders them ineffective in real combat.

HTH