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  • noun Plural form of packsack.

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Examples

  • He went to his packsacks and took out his water bottle and shook it and found it empty.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Sometime deep in the night, Inman took his packsacks and went into the woods beyond camp and spread his bedding within earshot of the gypsy music and the sound of voices.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Sometime deep in the night, Inman took his packsacks and went into the woods beyond camp and spread his bedding within earshot of the gypsy music and the sound of voices.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • He went to his packsacks and took out his water bottle and shook it and found it empty.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • The hallway was packed with grimy animalmen, carrying packsacks and electric rifles.

    The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971

  • They slung packsacks with food and the froth containers.

    Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

  • From the bulging packsacks a real camp supper was gotten under way.

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • One secretary made the trip around the blockhouses and outposts daily with a couple of packsacks filled with gum, candy and cigarettes, which were distributed as generously as the small capacity of the sacks permitted.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • Both carried packsacks -- the cameras, of course -- and both carried long-range rifle blasters.

    —And Devious the Line of Duty Tom Godwin 1947

  • Well, on the land, the Norwegians had not mobilized, as I said, but the young boys sneaked out of Oslo, through the woods and through the German lines with their skis and packsacks, and gathered into platoons where they met other boys, and the platoons gathered into companies and battalions.

    The Invasion of Norway 1940

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