haversack
Example Sentences
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Accoutrements included blankets, canteens, haversacks and “possibles” bags.
From Washington Times
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
Two of his comrades had tried to appease their desperate feeling of hunger by a hoe-cake which they had taken from the haversack of a dead rebel soldier.
From Project Gutenberg
They had plenty of cold meat with them, for the settlers had, before starting, filled their haversacks.
From Project Gutenberg
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