What is "bedroll"

Usage examples of "bedroll".

Leweli spread her bedroll on the floor, but Ahl -- a sailor -- hung up one of the hammocks, fastening it to iron hooks in the cabin walls.

Like Mark, she carried her bedroll on her Cheyenne roll saddle but instead of a Manilla rope had her blacksnake whip strapped to its horn.

They have coats and bedrolls for blankets and old twine-handle shopping bags and Glad bags for recyclable cans and bottles.

No bureaucrats or game wardens had bothered Ralph Cottle since the day, eleven years ago, when he had cleaned out the cottage, put down his bedroll, and settled in as a squatter.

The first bunch would come in then and sleep until just before dawn, when Jiggers would roust them out of their bedrolls.

Chet awakened the next morning and found him seated on his bedroll, the chamois band knotted around his neck since Long Moc now fastened across his forehead.

One year, when the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail was being opened, Dad and I carried our bedrolls, dry clothes and some food and hiked from Elizabethton across the ridges and into the Carolinas.

Dazed and gasping, she blinked in owllike confusion as he wrapped her in the ice-speckled bedroll.

At the turn of the century, South Rockingham was all ranchland, flat fields planted to beans and walnuts, harvested by itinerant crews who traveled with steam engines, cookhouses, and bedroll wagons.

Downtown was doing its usual split-personality routine: Fasttalking, fast-walking Power Dressers, Wannabee Tycoons, and stifflipped secretaries sharing turf with bleary-eyed, filth-encrusted human shells transporting their life stories in purloined shopping carts and verminous bedrolls.

When she glanced back Marka saw that the acrobats were beginning to unload bedrolls and cushions from the wagons.

They would have pitched a lonely camp under the trees with only bedrolls and a borrowed cookpot had not Ingarin insisted on having them join her family for meals.

An extra set of clean dishcloths from the cookshack covered the bedroll that had been called into use as a mattress, and two more bedrolls served as propping pillows.

He jerked the string tying his bedroll and unrolled the mattresslike quilt pad with its sheets, quilt, and canvas tarp bound inside.

Graham and Sighere and their twenty bordermen rode after the episcopal knights in plain harness, telltale tweeds now hidden away in saddlebags and bedrolls, with Father Derfel and Ansel and his few ex-Michaelines interspersed among them.