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gamebag

American  
[geym-bag] / ˈgeɪmˌbæg /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of gamebag

First recorded in 1820–30; game 1 + bag

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Ottomar had risen and taken up his gamebag; he had held his gun between his knees all the time.

From The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. by Friedrich Spielhagen

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

From Memories and Studies by Henry James

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 Virginia Sharpe Patterson

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

From Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley

The poor discouraged huntsman sat down on a stone that supported the signpost, relieved himself of his gun and his gamebag, and heaved a long sigh.

From Adieu by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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