Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for gripsack

gripsack

noun as in valise

Discover More

Example Sentences

I went right straight to my room, packed up my "gripsack" and went to the proprietor for a settlement.

The box is not in those 168 gripsacks; they are not large enough.

Frank, who had just come from the railway station, had a gripsack in each hand.

We sprang for the side-holts—my gripsack and I— It dangled—I dangled—we both dangled by.

“Well,” drawled Nares, “there’s sixty pounds of niggerhead on the quay, isn’t there? and twenty pounds of salts; and I never travel without some pain-killer in my gripsack.”

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement