ditty bag

American  

noun

1. a small bag used especially by sailors to hold sewing implements, toiletries, etc.

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ditty bag British  

noun

1. a sailor's cloth bag for personal belongings or tools. A box used for these purposes is termed a ditty box

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Etymology

Origin of ditty bag

First recorded in 1855–60; of obscure origin

Example Sentences

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ditty bag

No, this time the malaise comes aboard in Admiral Kirk's ditty bag, and it is that common cold of the earthling's psyche, a mid-life crisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

With other minor appurtenances in the ditty bag, including an arrow-repairing kit, one's burden is less than twenty pounds, an easy load.

From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Pope, Saxton

And then, as though in answer to the frantic thought, a man stepped into view below, and casually dropped his coat over the ditty bag.

From The Pirates of Shan by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

There were some tri-dimensional color slides in the ditty bag hanging by his bunk.

From Rescue Squad by O'Hara, Thomas J.

The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-tokens, jewels, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir