Knapsack
['næpsæk]
Definition
(v. t.) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.
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Definition
n. a provision-sack: a case for necessaries borne by soldiers and travellers.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a knapsack while dreaming, denotes you will find your greatest pleasure away from the associations of friends. For a woman to see an old dilapidated one, means poverty and disagreeableness for her.
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Examples
- The work done by a boy who raises a 5-pound knapsack to his shoulder would be 5x4, or 20, providing his shoulders were 4 feet from the ground. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Making his way to an empty little table in a corner of the room behind the stove, he put down his knapsack and his cloak upon the ground. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If the knapsack were twice as heavy, you would exert twice as much force to raise it to the same height, and hence you would do double the work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Jack or Donald marches away to glory with his knapsack on his shoulder, stepping out briskly to the tune of The Girl I Left Behind Me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The many laughs we have had together would infallibly come across me, and Frederick and his knapsack would be obliged to run away. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Bartolomeo brought out his knapsack and cut off two pieces of cheese. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If you lift a knapsack from the floor to the table, you do work because you use force and move the knapsack through a distance equal to the height of the table. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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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