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gunpad

gunpad noun: a padded shoulder on a coat designed to protect the fabric from the recoil of a rifle or shotgun.

Noun

gunpad (plural gunpads)

  1. (historical) A padded shoulder on a coat designed to protect the fabric from the recoil of a rifle or shotgun.
    • 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.1892, Bertha Jane Grundy [Mrs. Leith Adams, Mrs. R. S. de Courcy Laffan], “On the Other Side of the River”, in All the Year Round, page 56
  2. (historical) A pad for holding a cannon during transport.
    • Tighten these straps till wheels are in best position, and bear firmly on the cargo-cincha wheel-pads and on the gunpad.1886, United States Army Ordnance Department, Report of the Chief of Ordnance, page 485

Forms of gunpad

pluralgunpads
alternative formgun pad

Origin of gunpad

From gun + pad.

Questions about gunpad

What does gunpad mean?
Gunpad means a padded shoulder on a coat designed to protect the fabric from the recoil of a rifle or shotgun.
What part of speech is gunpad?
Gunpad is a noun.
What is the plural of gunpad?
The plural of gunpad is gunpads.

Words near gunpad in the dictionary

  1. gunnysacking
  2. gunnysacks
  3. gunocracy
  4. gunowner
  5. gunowners
  6. gunpad
  7. gunpads
  8. gunpaper
  9. gunpapers
  10. gunpeople
  11. gunperson

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