snapsack

English

Etymology

Compare German Schnappsack and similar Northern Sami word.

Noun

snapsack (plural snapsacks)

1. (obsolete) A knapsack.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     a soldier who had filled his snapsack

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snapsack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nap sacks, napsacks