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mess gear

American  

noun

  1. mess kit.


Etymology

Origin of mess gear

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Did you ever read The Forty Days of Musa Dagh?" asked one officer reflectively as he sorted out his mess gear at breakfast table.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now, d'ye hear there," he shouted, hoarsely, "you will break out mess gear and get yourselves ready for messing aboard ship."

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell

I suddenly remembered something that I wanted done about the men's mess gear, and returned along the companion way.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler

By the time "mess gear" was piped, the ship was very clean, so during the afternoon we were left largely to our own devices.

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell

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