Baggage
['bægɪdʒ] or ['bæɡɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) cases used to carry belongings when traveling.
(noun.) the portable equipment and supplies of an army.
(noun.) a worthless or immoral woman.
Inputed by Henrietta--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
(n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
(n.) Purulent matter.
(n.) Trashy talk.
(n.) A man of bad character.
(n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
(n.) A romping, saucy girl.
Editor: Thea
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Luggage, bag and baggage.
Typist: Marcus
Definition
n. the tents provisions and other necessaries of an army: (U.S.) traveller's luggage; a worthless woman: a saucy woman.
Edited by Hugh
Examples
- The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Now, Tom, I've relieved you of any extra baggage, you see. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There was, if my memory serves me, but one small steamer to transport troops and baggage when the 4th infantry arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is less of baggage to carry with you on the other side, yes? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A certain amount of baggage was allowed per man, and saddle animals were to be furnished to commissioned officers and to all disabled persons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Recommend him by the post to-night, and send him off, bag and baggage (English phrase again--ha! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Should the men have to march, all baggage and artillery will be left to run the blockade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I never saw her, except upon a baggage-waggon, when she wasn't washing greens! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He stayed on the train, without a ticket, without baggage, and reached Philadelphia with the Hubbards. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Let them unload two of the sumpter-mules, and put the baggage behind two of the serfs. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I thanked fortune that I had one, too, notwithstanding it was packed up with the baggage and was ten miles ahead. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Orders had been given, long before this movement began, to cut down the baggage of officers and men to the lowest point possible. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I simply said, If you call this camping out, all right--but it isn't the style I am used to; my little baggage that I brought along is at a discount. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Jeremy