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单词 haversack
释义
haversackhav‧er‧sack /ˈhævəsæk $ -ər-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhaversack
Origin:
1700-1800 French havresac, from German habersack, from haber ‘oats’ + sack ‘bag’
Examples
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  • An upper window of the house had been opened and a haversack was dropped to the ground.
  • At supper there arc copyright sheets of songs once sunk in the tunnels and a release of air as nylon haversacks flatten.
  • How can you escape all this without some haversack of a parenthesis about the lady's character?
  • I stole it out of one of the Posten's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room.
  • It wasn't long before he reappeared and swiftly removed his haversack, bags and boxes from the back of the cart.
  • Rifles, bayonets, pistols, haversacks, cartridge-boxes, canteens, blankets, belts, and overcoats lined the road.
  • Tom unpacked the haversack and wandered round the room putting the groceries away on shelves and into small cupboards.
  • Yanto quickly stuffed the goods into his haversack.
British English old-fashioned a bag that you carry on your back SYN  backpack, rucksack
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