Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
knapsack .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A knapsack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
knapsack .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Right now, I am making something called a snapsack, which was a bag that was open on one end and hung across the back," said Malikowski, dressed in period garb, as he punched holes in a length of leather using period tools.
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And why should he wish me to be away, as clearly he did? and why also malign me to my father I I smiled to think I was where his malice could do me no harm, and, rising, pulled my snapsack straps up on my shoulders, and set my face to the east.
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However, he read my pass and the order for the boat, pushed the skiff into the water, and proposed, as he lifted my snapsack, to let one of his men row me.
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At break of day I woke, and, stealing downstairs, took gun, powder-horn, and shot, and in the stable loft put the ammunition in the top of my snapsack; then, quickly changing my clothes, concealed those I had put off under the hay, and so set out.
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This led me down the river to a point where I must leave it, shoulder my snapsack, and trudge down the Darby, road, or between it and the river.
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On Second street I bought a smock shirt, rough shoes, and coarse knit stockings, as well as a good snapsack, and, rolling them up securely, left them at home in the hay-loft.
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Annoyed no little, -- for here I meant to land, -- I turned the boat, still hidden by the tall reeds, and soon drew up the skiff at Bartram's, where, taking gun and snapsack, I went up the slope.
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"I was tied to that fellow you disposed of, and with your permission I will get my snapsack yonder."
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I carefully packed my snapsack, putting the gold in bags at the bottom, and covering it with the flannel shirts and extra shoes which made up my outfit.
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We should look upon him as a strange soldier, that, when he is upon his march, and to go upon service, instead of his sword, should take his snapsack.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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