packsack

American  

[pak-sak] / ˈpækˌsæk /

noun

1. a leather or canvas carrying bag, usually one that can be strapped over the shoulder and used to carry food and personal items when a person is traveling.

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packsack British  

/ ˈpækˌsæk /

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): knapsack.  a bag carried strapped on the back or shoulder

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Etymology

Origin of packsack

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; pack ¹ + sack ¹

Example Sentences

As she talked she opened a light packsack that Brent had noticed upon her shoulders, and drew from its interior a rabbit robe which she spread upon the boughs.

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Dragging the skiff well above high-water mark, I stacked my stuff in it, shouldered my packsack and climbed the levee.

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Being careful to touch them with nothing except the gloves, he put eight traps, eight stakes, the roll of canvas, the hatchet and the bottle of scent into the packsack and shouldered it.

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I always carry a light ax and if the weather is cold I put a blanket in my packsack.

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He unslung the packsack from his shoulders, removed its protective outer shield and began to assemble the organic surveyor, an egg-shaped ball of white carponium secured to a segmented forty-foot rod.

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