gripsackn.
/ˈɡrɪpsak/ U.S. colloquial.
A traveller's handbag.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held
mailc1275
clothesack1393
cloak-bagc1540
portmanteau1553
valance?a1562
pockmanty1575
cap-case1577
cloak-bearer1580
night baga1618
valisea1630
toilet1656
Roger1665
shirt case1823
weekend case1827
carpet-bag1830
holdall1851
handbag1859
suitcase1873
sample case1875
gripsack1877
case1879
grip1879
Gladstone (bag)1882
traveller1895
vanity-case1913
luggage1915
revelation1923
two-suiter1923
overnight bag1925
one-suiter1933
suiter1933
overnight case1934
Samsonite1939
flight bag1943
Pullman1946
grip-bag1958
overnighter1959
carry-on1960
Vuitton1975
go bag1991
1877 R. J. Burdette Rise & Fall of Mustache 59 If I was going to Europe, I would just rush into the house, put on a clean shirt, grab up my gripsack, and fly.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Dec. 2/2 The word ‘grip-sack’ has long been in use in America as a slang term for hand-satchel.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxiii. 287 Take your gripsack and get along.
1891 19th Cent. Oct. 588 They pack their grip-sacks and go off to Europe.
1909 W. J. Locke Septimus xiv. 213 Gives instant relief for blistered feet. Every mountaineer should carry it in his gripsack.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Apr. 3/1 This most refreshing, invigorating and purifying of Fruit Salts should be in..the gripsack of every tourist.
1926 G. K. Chesterton Incredulity of Father Brown i. 4 His grip-sack held in a steely grip.
1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvii. 42 Preceded by a crash, i.e. by a Huge gripsack or satchel.
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