Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A leathern pouch for holding bullets, formerly carried attached to a bandoleer or baldric.

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Examples

  • At the period in question, the plantations in that part of the country were very few and far between, but nevertheless by the afternoon of the next day we had got together four-and-thirty men, mounted on mustangs, each equipped with rifle and bowie-knife, powder-horn and bullet-bag, and furnished with provisions for several days.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

  • Bar, and La Salle and Kennedy got one each; but the sport was too tedious, and La Salle, taking a bullet-bag and powder-flask from his box, proceeded to count out ten bullets, which he laid carefully before him.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • The next day they all went to the spot, where they found the dead Indian and took away his tomahawk, knife, and bullet-bag; but they never found his gun.

    The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • With it, his powder-horn and his bullet-bag must go.

    The Way of an Indian Frederic Remington 1885

  • This bandileer sustained twelve boxes of cartridges, and a well-filled bullet-bag.

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Here, Jem, run back to Number One -- here's the key -- and bring my rifle and the powder-flask and bullet-bag.

    Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

  • He usually carried a double-barrelled gun over his shoulder, and a powder-horn and bullet-bag were slung round his neck.

    Martin Rattler 1859

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