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

Very good words, very kind,—very heavy gamebag, though. 

From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles

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

Applying it wholesale as he did, innumerable truths unobserved till then had to fall into his gamebag.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

The eagle, luckily unhurt, was rewarded with a small pigeon from my gamebag.

From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph

Placing the rabbits in a gamebag, the two chums walked on, past the clump of spruces and then across a little clearing.

From Out with Gun and Camera by Bonehill, Ralph