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Snapsack

Snapsack \Snap"sack`\, n. [Cf. Sw. snapps["a]ck, G. schnappsack.] A knapsack. [Obs.]
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snapsack

n. (context obsolete English) A knapsack.

Usage examples of "snapsack".

My old garments I put in the snapsack, but when I took off my shoes, the fine hose that Peter and my brothers had given me were worn to rags.

I laid my hand on my knife, let him see it, then gave him the look which had sent the snapsack thief running.

He groped in his snapsack for the Holy Book and handed it me before turning back to his cookery.

Clutching my snapsack, I rose and followed him across stiffened mud which crunched beneath my boots.