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gunpad
noun 2
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2ADJ.
pale
PREP.
on, with
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noun
1
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.
2
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.
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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
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Tighten these straps till wheels are in best position, and bear firmly on the cargo-cincha wheel-pads and on the gunpad.
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