Gunpad
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A padded shoulder on a coat designed to protect the fabric from the recoil of a rifle or shotgun. historical
"It was the portrait of a man of thirty-five or thereabouts, not absolutely handsome, but wonderfully attractive, dressed in a brown velveteen shooting-coat with a leather gunpad, and a pale grey-blue handkerchief peeping from the breast-pocket."
- 2 A pad for holding a cannon during transport. historical
"Tighten these straps till wheels are in best position, and bear firmly on the cargo-cincha wheel-pads and on the gunpad."
Example
More examples"It was the portrait of a man of thirty-five or thereabouts, not absolutely handsome, but wonderfully attractive, dressed in a brown velveteen shooting-coat with a leather gunpad, and a pale grey-blue handkerchief peeping from the breast-pocket."
Etymology
From gun + pad.
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