gipser

See also: Gipser

English

Alternative forms
  • gipsire

Etymology

French gibecière (“a game pouch or game pocket”). Compare gibbier.

Noun

gipser (plural gipsers)

  1. (historical) A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gipser in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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