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

Moving soundlessly, Nettle groped in his haversack for the saucisson, cut it into three and passed a piece to Turner with a chunk of bread.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Early the next morning the reveille beat, the whole camp was soon in motion, and after a slight breakfast from our haversacks the march was resumed.

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

"We have four days' rations in our haversacks, and twelve days' in our wagons," said Colonel Batchelder, Quartermaster-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac.

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