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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Patrontas(c)h(e, n. Also: patrin-, padron-, and Paterntash. [Du. patroon-tasch, Germ. patronentasch, cartridge-pouch or -bag, f. as Patro(u)n(e n.2 Only Sc.] A case or pouch for holding cartridges.1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII. 356.
A black leather bag wherein is ane broydered patrontasch 1689 Acts IX. 83/1.
Two hundered patrontashes for musketts … and two hundered baggonets1689 Edinb. B. Rec. XI. 272.
Of the outreikers … who are deficient in payment of the souldiers their patrintashes and bagginets 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 541.
The petitioner haveing imployed James Turner cabinetmaker for makeing six hundred patrontashes with belts … the hammermen … have … taken away severall of the stans and other materialls he had 1693 Seafield Corr. 126.
Padrontash 1696 Edinb. B. Rec. XII. 193.
That two hundred firelocks and the lyke number of patrontashes be provyded 1706 Melville Corr. 194.
And the patrontashes and holsters … are very insufficient being made up with paper
