Haversack
['hævəsæk] or ['hævɚ'sæk]
Definition
(n.) A bag for oats or oatmeal.
(n.) A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.
(n.) A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.
Typist: Nola
Definition
n. a bag of strong linen for a soldier carrying his rations in.—n. Hav′er (prov.) oats.
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Examples
- He put two bottles of wine and half a cheese into his haversack. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If not already directed, require your men to keep three days' rations in their haversacks, not to be touched until a movement commences. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All the troops will move with four days' rations in haversacks and eight days' in wagons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Three days rations in addition, in haversacks, and fifty rounds of cartridges, were carried on the person of each soldier. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I heard some of the men say that the enemy had come out with knapsacks, and haversacks filled with rations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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