haversack

Example Sentences

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Accoutrements included blankets, canteens, haversacks and “possibles” bags.

From Washington Times

“I thought we’d use the microscope today,” he said, securing it in its case and nestling it in his haversack.

From Literature

All it ever did was take up space, dangling uselessly over my shoulder in its haversack like a wingless khaki albatross for the past four years.

From Literature

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

Out go the soldiers in tin hats, the bayonets, the haversacks and hobnailed ankle boots.

From Time