gunpad

plural gunpads · alternative gun pad

1. historicalA 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.

   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

2. historicalA 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.

   1886, United States Army Ordnance Department, Report of the Chief of Ordnance, page 485