Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of satchel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small bag.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of satchel.

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Examples

  • Message for Avram-great technical skills but I am some way from Surry Hills-save your sachel for the bad guys- landsman enough now I'm bored night night all FP

    Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010

  • "Clinton's got sachel -- common sense," says Dore Gold, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations.

    A Battle Of Wills 2008

  • Peter Bennett, a green, patent leash sachel, and near by were some wagons, the wheels of which had been cut down, loaded with hospital stores.

    Two boys in the Civil War and after, 1912

  • Johnnie West one evening got down his sachel, took out a book and sat and read till bed time.

    Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899

  • I said nothing, and, picking up the sachel, trudged downstairs.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • I said "no" in a pretty forcible manner, and gave weight and meaning to my monosyllable by jerking the sachel away.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • The mozo who had carried the bothersome sachel demanded "un peso" (one dollar), which I very promptly refused, and gave him the smallest change from my purse – twenty-five cents.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • She was very fleshy, and had, besides a hand sachel, a cage in which were two brown birds dotted with red, which they informed us later were French canaries.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • One woman took from her sachel a cross and prayer book, and read herself to sleep.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • [Page 122] as I was a healthy American girl, and as strong as one can be after several months 'training on beans and cayenne pepper, I had no intention of giving a great, big, brown fellow $1 for carrying a five-pound sachel half a square.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

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