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  • noun Plural form of haversack.

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Examples

  • There was a great smell of newness about certain articles in the bedroom, such as haversacks, knapsacks, portmanteaus, leather gun-cases, &c.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Confederate flags were often homemade, while northern volunteer regiments made their own flags; the canteens, haversacks, horse tack, hats, uniforms, artillery, guns of all types -- the specifics are endless and everything.

    Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

  • The flow of the river started taking them downstream, so I dropped the haversacks, ran down the riverside starkers, dived into the river and caught our clothes.

    John Keay 2010

  • Confederate flags were often homemade, while northern volunteer regiments made their own flags; the canteens, haversacks, horse tack, hats, uniforms, artillery, guns of all types -- the specifics are endless and everything.

    Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

  • Each night we would take a little of our rations and put them there, we put our haversacks, bars of chocolate, biscuits, maps and compass, our spare socks and shirt and our personal belongings, the lads at camp changed me a lot of chocolate for my cigarettes, so we had enough food to keep going for 2 weeks.

    John Keay 2010

  • Confederate flags were often homemade, while northern volunteer regiments made their own flags; the canteens, haversacks, horse tack, hats, uniforms, artillery, guns of all types -- the specifics are endless and everything.

    Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

  • Confederate flags were often homemade, while northern volunteer regiments made their own flags; the canteens, haversacks, horse tack, hats, uniforms, artillery, guns of all types -- the specifics are endless and everything.

    Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

  • Confederate flags were often homemade, while northern volunteer regiments made their own flags; the canteens, haversacks, horse tack, hats, uniforms, artillery, guns of all types -- the specifics are endless and everything.

    Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

  • Confederate flags were often homemade, while northern volunteer regiments made their own flags; the canteens, haversacks, horse tack, hats, uniforms, artillery, guns of all types -- the specifics are endless and everything.

    Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy Daniel Grant 2010

  • On the street in front of my present home, twenty thousand Yankee soldiers marched down the Old Spanish Trail in pursuit of General Alfred Mouton and his boys in butternut, their haversacks stuffed with loot, their wounds from a dozen firefights still green, their lust for revenge unsated.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

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