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haversack|ˈhævəsæk|
Also havresack, and as F. havresac.
[a. F. havresac (1680 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. G. habersack lit. ‘oat-sack’ (cf. haver n.2), orig. the bag in which cavalry and horsemen carried the oats for their horses (Grimm), thence extended to a bag in which travellers and others carried personal property, and to that used by French and English soldiers.]
A bag of stout canvas, worn with a strap over the shoulder, in which a soldier carries his current day's rations. Also, any similar bag used for a like purpose by travellers, etc.
(In Cavendish's Wolsey edd. Singer 1827, Morley 1885, an error for half hakks.)
1749Smollett Gil Blas ii. viii. (1782) I. 198 A long sword lay by him on the grass, with an havresack, of which he had unloaded his shoulders. 1818Byron Mazeppa iv, The venerable man From out his havresack and can Prepared and spread his slender stock. 1839New Monthly Mag. LVII. 257, I..strapped on my havresac. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 71 Converting my waterproof havresack into a cushion. 1868Regul. & Ord. Army 36 1128 Both straps of the havresack are to be worn outside the waist belt. 1879M. Pattison Milton xiii. 165 Every private in the French army carries in his haversack the bâton of a marshal.
†b. ‘A gunner's case for ordnance, being a leather bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition-chest to the piece in loading’. Obs.
1858in Simmonds Dict. Trade. |