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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.

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Examples

  • We passed a party of young fellows on a walking tour, knapsacked and knickerbockered, and the admiring glances they passed at my passenger were flattering.

    Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • To get our horses safely on board the steamer is no easy task, for wharf and deck are lumbered up with all the paraphernalia of a campaign, and squads of heavily-knapsacked men are still hurrying on board, all jubilant and some quite intoxicated with patriotism and poor whiskey.

    The Romance of the Civil War 1903

  • On their right hardly did time suffice for boys to climb the trees that in four rows shaded its noisome canal; on their left not a second too many was there for the people to crowd the doorsteps, fill windows and garden gates, line the banquettes and silently gather breath and ardor while the escort moved by, before the moment was come in which to cheer and cheer and cheer, as with a hundred flashing sabres at shoulder the dismounted, heavy-knapsacked, camp-worn battery, Kincaid's Battery -- you could read the name on the flag -- Kincaid's Battery! came and came and passed.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

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