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snapsack

snapsack noun: a knapsack.

Noun

snapsack (plural snapsacks)

  1. (archaic) A knapsack.
    • a soldier who had filled his snapsack1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

Forms of snapsack

pluralsnapsacks

Origin of snapsack

Compare German Schnappsack and similar Northern Sami word.

Questions about snapsack

What does snapsack mean?
Snapsack means a knapsack.
What part of speech is snapsack?
Snapsack is a noun.
What is the plural of snapsack?
The plural of snapsack is snapsacks.

Words near snapsack in the dictionary

  1. snaps out of
  2. snaps someone's head off
  3. snaps to
  4. snaps to attention
  5. snaps up
  6. snapsack
  7. snapsacks
  8. snapshoot
  9. snapshooter
  10. snapshooters
  11. snapshooting

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