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

Last week as they edged ahead through central Eritrea each Sikh wore a turban on his head, obediently dangled a British helmet from his haversack.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

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

Blankets, knapsacks, haversacks, here and there muskets, wagons, one overturned in a slough, one with its tongue broken, tents, harnesses, oats, corn, flour, tent-poles, were confusedly scattered along the way.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin