gamebag

[ geym-bag ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of gamebag¹

First recorded in 1820–30; game ¹ + bag

Example Sentences

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

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

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I daresay, when the Cockney sportsman returned with an empty gamebag, he abused the stupid dog for running away.

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

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"Out of that gamebag," answered Harry, deliberately, pointing to the well filled plump net which Timothy had just brought in and hung up on the pegs beside the box-coats.

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