gripsack

[ grip-sak ]
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nounOlder Use.
  1. a traveling bag; grip.

Origin of gripsack

1
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; grip + sack1

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How to use gripsack in a sentence

  • In this apartment he found an old travelling-bag, or gripsack, hanging on a nail.

  • To cap it, the mule blundered off the trail and fell, throwing rider and gripsack out upon the rocks.

    Lost Face | Jack London
  • “Oh, thanks, old man; it was good of you to bring it out,” Bondell said when he received the gripsack.

    Lost Face | Jack London
  • Burns wanted to put the gripsack on another animal, but Churchill held on to it, carrying it on his saddle-pommel.

    Lost Face | Jack London
  • McMurdo picked up his leather gripsack and was about to start off into the darkness, when one of the miners accosted him.

    The Valley of Fear | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle