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Definition of Elbow pad
1. Noun. Protective garment consisting of a pad worn over the elbow by football and hockey players.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elbow Pad
Literary usage of Elbow pad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"... flesh resembling an elbow-pad,'° whence the august name bestowed on him.
By this it was known while ime was in time womb that he would rule countries. ..."
2. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide: Foot Ball Rules as Recommended by the by Walter Camp (1915)
"Nd. D Spalding Leather Covered Shoulder and elbow pad» Hand made and correctly
... elbow pad. ..... Each. 25c. * $2.10 Dot. Tht fritts tr'Mtd in italics ..."
3. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 by William George Aston (1896)
"... flesh growing on his arm in shape like an elbow-pad.5 As to this resemblance,
the Empress judged that it was the elbow-pad worn as a manly accoutrement. ..."
4. Japan: Continuing the History to the Close of 1905, with the Provisions of by David Murray, Kentaro Kaneko, Albert White Vorse (1906)
"When the Sun Goddess saw her brother coming she put jewels in her hair and on
her arms, slung two quivers of arrows on her back, put an elbow pad upon her ..."
5. Japan by David Murray, Joseph Henry Longford (1894)
"When the Sun Goddess saw her brother coming she put jewels in her hair and on
her arms, slung two quivers of arrows on her back, put an elbow pad upon her ..."
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