Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A canvas or leather traveling bag designed to be carried while strapped to the shoulders.
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- noun A
backpack ,knapsack ,rucksack or similarbag packed with provisions or personal items, especially as carried by atraveller or ahiker , and oftenslung over theshoulder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
Etymologies
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Examples
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He left his bag, hunkered in the dark and opened the packsack that had been his pillow with fingers too schooled to need light.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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In the excitement, I grabbed two travel bags and left the small packsack sitting on the city bus floor.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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Naively I inquired further, “Might the packsack or papers get turned at the police station?”
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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Not just the travelers checks, but three return plane tickets, three tourist visas, my passport, travel journal, notebooks and small packsack – the whole shooting match!
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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In the excitement, I grabbed two travel bags and left the small packsack sitting on the city bus floor.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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Not just the travelers checks, but three return plane tickets, three tourist visas, my passport, travel journal, notebooks and small packsack – the whole shooting match!
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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Six months after I was born, I was taken by packsack to a remote cabin in north-western Quebec, where my father was doing research as a forest entomologist.
margaret atwood | waterstone’s poetry lecture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Naively I inquired further, “Might the packsack or papers get turned at the police station?”
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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The bag held the important documents although the packsack itself, cheap camera, water bottle and other small personal items were missing.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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The bag held the important documents although the packsack itself, cheap camera, water bottle and other small personal items were missing.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - "lost and found" in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2007
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