shot-pouch

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Over his shoulders he slung a powder-horn and shot-pouch, the latter tastefully embroidered with dyed quill-work.

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  1. A receptacle for the small shot used in hunting small game. Such pouches were formerly made of different material and of many different forms, but generally of leather, and fitted with a metal charger, or device for measuring a desired charge of shot. Like the powder-flask or powder-horn, the shot-pouch has almost disappeared with the nearly universal use of breech-loaders, which take fixed ammunition in the form of shot-cartridges. He searched under his red flannel shirt, beneath the heavy tangle of shot-pouches, and powder-flask, and dangling chargers of antelope-horn, and the like. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 119.
  2. The ruddy duek, Erismatura, rubida: so called in allusion to the quantity of shot often required to kill it. See cut under Erismatura. [Local, U. S.]

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  • Over his shoulders he slung a powder-horn and shot-pouch, the latter tastefully embroidered with dyed quill-work. —  The Young Fur Traders
  • The "popgun" to which he referred was one of the smooth-bore flint-lock single-barrelled fowling-pieces which traders were in the habit of supplying to the natives at that time, and which Unaco had lent to the boy for the day, with his powder-horn and ornamented shot-pouch. —  Twice Bought
  • "But I have already discovered one very strong law in this household," she smilingly asserted, as she stood beside him near the hall-table, on which he had placed his powder-flask and shot-pouch. —  Nature's Serial Story
  • There he stood, straight as the trunk of a pine, light and agile in person, with nothing but his breech-cloth, moccasins, and a blue calico shirt belted to his loins with a scarlet band, through which was thrust the handle of his tomahawk, and to which were attached his shot-pouch and horn, while his rifle rested against his body, butt downward. —  Satanstoe
  • Over his shoulders he slung a powder-horn and shot-pouch, the latter tastefully embroidered with dyed quill-work, A pair of deer-skin mittens, having a little bag for the thumb, and a large bag for the fingers, completed his costume. —  The Young Fur Traders
 

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