ditty bag

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No, this time the malaise comes aboard in Admiral Kirk's ditty bag, and it is that common cold of the earthling's psyche, a mid-life crisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

With other minor appurtenances in the ditty bag, including an arrow-repairing kit, one's burden is less than twenty pounds, an easy load.

From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Pope, Saxton

And then, as though in answer to the frantic thought, a man stepped into view below, and casually dropped his coat over the ditty bag.

From The Pirates of Shan by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

There were some tri-dimensional color slides in the ditty bag hanging by his bunk.

From Rescue Squad by O'Hara, Thomas J.

The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-tokens, jewels, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir