Knapsack Definition

năpsăk
knapsacks
noun
knapsacks
A bag or case of leather, canvas, nylon, etc. worn on the back, as by soldiers or hikers, for carrying equipment or supplies.
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verb

To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight (longer.)

My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.
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Other Word Forms of Knapsack

Noun

Singular:
knapsack
Plural:
knapsacks

Origin of Knapsack

  • Probably Low German Knappsack knappen to bite (probably of imitative origin) Sack bag (from Middle Low German sak) (from Old High German sac) (from Late Latin saccus sack1)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Knapsack Sentence Examples

  • Don't go zippering up his knapsack on him.

  • The knapsack contained nearly all new clothes, both dirty and clean.

  • They sat for a moment while Dean opened his knapsack and checked their limited equipment.

  • He's got the whole world in his knapsack.

  • A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real doppelkummel.

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