gunpad

English

Alternative forms

• gun pad

Etymology

gun +‎ pad

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.
   • 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:

     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. (historical) A pad for holding a cannon during transport.
   • 1886, United States Army Ordnance Department, Report of the Chief of Ordnance, page 485:

     Tighten these straps till wheels are in best position, and bear firmly on the cargo-cincha wheel-pads and on the gunpad.