ditty bag
Example Sentences
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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
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
Then Rick carefully wrapped the radio unit in his handkerchief, and put the whole thing in a black denim ditty bag borrowed from Chahda for the purpose.
From The Pirates of Shan by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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.
