haversack
noun
a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
haversacks
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pluralof haversack.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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On the end page of W T Palmer's 1939 book, there's an illustration of two exhausted but very contented little penguins, reposing on their haversacks.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2018
A handful of spectators watched the Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks."
From Time Magazine Archive
They had passed the previous night in a sheltered valley lower down, sleeping on the ground, under the stars, and had breakfasted from the scanty stock of eatables carried in their haversacks.
From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
They were all well armed, carrying some 250 rounds of ammunition with eight days' rations in their haversacks.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton
