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Haversack

//ˈhævəsæk// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap, and originally made of canvas.

    "And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children."

  2. 2
    a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder wordnet
  3. 3
    An oat-sack, or nosebag for a horse. archaic

Etymology

From French havresac, from Low German Haaversack and/or German Habersack, Hafersack (literally “oat-sack”), from Hafer + Sack. Compare also Dutch haverzak.

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