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

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

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 Spielhagen, Friedrich

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

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

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

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