| 释义 |
ˈshot-bag Chiefly U.S.
[shot n.1]
A bag for carrying shot; a shot-pouch. Also transf. a purse.
1638in Archives of Maryland (1887) IV. 32 It[em] one fowling piece & shott bagge. 1756P. Hog Let. 14 May in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 260 Going to Load he missed his Shot Bag which had been Carried away by one of the Shots. 1800A. Henry Jrnl. 4 Oct. (1897) I. iii. 111 The Indians were standing in the fort with nothing on but their breech-clouts, powder⁓horns, shot bags, and guns in their hands. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It ii. 5 We also took with us a little shot-bag of silver coin. 1946Aircraft Engineering XVIII. 109/2 The time-honoured method of loading with shot bags the structure to be tested in an inverted position is still current practice across the Atlantic. |