gripsack
gripsack noun: a traveller's bag.
Noun
gripsack (plural gripsacks)
- A traveller's bag.
- As for Bondell's gripsack, it was inconceivable that forty pounds could weigh so much. It pressed him down like a mountain, and he looked back with unbelief to the year before, when he had climbed that same pass with a hundred and fifty pounds on his back. If those loads had weighed a hundred and...1910, Jack London, “Trust”, in Lost Face
- “Well,” drawled Nares, “there's sixty pounds of niggerhead on the quay, isn't there? and twenty pounds of salts; and I never travel without some pain-killer in my gripsack.”1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, chapter 11, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC
Forms of gripsack
| plural | gripsacks |
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Origin of gripsack
From grip + sack.
Questions about gripsack
- What does gripsack mean?
- Gripsack means a traveller's bag.
- What part of speech is gripsack?
- Gripsack is a noun.
- What is the plural of gripsack?
- The plural of gripsack is gripsacks.
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