haversack

He has one green parakeet feather in his haversack.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2012

And now it has its metaphorical haversack over its brave, small metaphorical shoulders and is trotting off to do some Youth Hostelling in Indonesia without me.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2011

He'd arrive on his bike, his haversack full of groceries, and he'd spend the afternoon with us.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010

In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hastily he slipped them into the haversack, hiding the nuts from Warbeak.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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 ● Apr. 2, 2018

Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks."

From Time Magazine Archive

A handful of spectators watched the Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had passed the previous night in a sheltered valley lower down, sleeping on the ground, under the stars, and had breakfasted from the scanty stock of eatables carried in their haversacks.

From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

The battle itself seemed to have been forgotten, and in a brief time all the goods had disappeared, either into haversacks or into secret pockets of the thoughtless soldiers.

From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson