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

Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Our blankets were strapped on the pads, and our haversacks were filled with food.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

With two days’ rations in their haversacks, the men marched until they arrived in front of Yorktown, where they bivouacked on the ground, over which the water was running like a flood.

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds