haversack

[ UK /hˈævəsˌæk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
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How To Use haversack In A Sentence

  • The flow of the river started taking them downstream, so I dropped the haversacks, ran down the riverside starkers, dived into the river and caught our clothes. John Keay
  • At that he stepped out to his haversack, and on his return he poured out some seven thimblesful of saccharine into a hand quite cheerfully extended. My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant,
  • Wearing wool uniforms and carrying haversacks and rifles that can weigh up to 30 pounds, they will march for miles under an oftentimes blazing summer sun.
  • The explosive was kept in a blue and red "haversack", he said. The Times of India
  • He was now wearing a blue baseball cap and carrying a blue haversack. THE BOOK LADY
  • If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
  • The explosive was kept in a blue and red "haversack", he said. comment Note: By posting your comments here you agree to the Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
  • They walked with their webbing packed full of ammunition and in their haversacks they carried five days' bully beef and biscuits and a minimum of personal gear.
  • To him it was sheer romance to parade through town with a tin haversack of carbons for the arc-lights, familiarly lowering the high-hung mysterious lamps, while his plodding acquaintances "clerked" in stores on Saturdays, or tended furnaces. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
  • If you don't attend many conferences you won't have noticed that it seems to be fashionable to give out rucksacks, backpacks and haversacks as freebies to delegates.
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