gamebag

American  

[geym-bag] / ˈgeɪmˌbæg /

noun

1. a bag, usually of leather or canvas, for carrying game, especially birds, killed by a hunter.

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Etymology

Origin of gamebag

First recorded in 1820–30; game ¹ + bag

Example Sentences

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gamebag

Picking me up he ran toward his father, who was coming back from the neighboring swamp with his loaded gamebag.

From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Patterson, Virginia Sharpe

When Shirley Roseleaf left the hotel that morning he carried a fishing rod, a rifle, a gamebag and other acoutrements of the sportsman.

From A Black Adonis by Porter, Linn Boyd

Here and there are books, reviews, a little work- basket in the shape of a gamebag, with silk tassels, a bunch of violets in a glass vase, and green plants in the jardinieres.

From Fromont and Risler — Volume 1 by Daudet, Alphonse

Each youth carried his shotgun and his gamebag, containing his dinner, and also a good supply of ammunition.

From Four Boy Hunters by Bonehill, Ralph

Genevieve had packed an ample lunch in a gamebag, along with her husband’s linked steel-wire surveyor’s chain.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George