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gripsack

noun

Etymology

From grip + sack.

  1. derived from sacco
  2. derived from sac
  3. derived from σάκκος — “bag of coarse cloth”
  4. derived from saccus — “large bag”
  5. inherited from *sakkuz✻ — “sack”
  6. inherited from *sakku✻
  7. inherited from sacc — “sack, bag”
  8. inherited from sak
  9. compounded as gripsack — “grip + sack”

Definitions

  1. A traveller's bag.

    • “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.”

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