KNAPSACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knapsack mean? 

• KNAPSACK (noun)
  The noun KNAPSACK has 1 sense:

1. a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

  Familiarity information: KNAPSACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNAPSACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

back pack; backpack; haversack; knapsack; packsack; rucksack

Hypernyms ("knapsack" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knapsack"):

kit bag; kitbag (a knapsack (usually for a soldier))

 Context examples 

A box of colored chalks was among the effects I found in his knapsack.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The moment he read it, he packed his knapsack, bade adieu to his fellow pedestrians, and was off to keep his promise, with a heart full of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The many laughs we have had together would infallibly come across me, and Frederick and his knapsack would be obliged to run away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With that he took me down, and tied the placard, which was neatly constructed for the purpose, on my shoulders like a knapsack; and wherever I went, afterwards, I had the consolation of carrying it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lord John had an electric torch in his knapsack, and this had to serve us as light.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I parted from them at the wicket-gate, where visionary Strap had rested with Roderick Random's knapsack in the days of yore; and, instead of going straight back, walked a little distance on the road to Lowestoft.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The man's knapsack lay beside the couch, and I examined the contents.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen Tom Pipes go climbing up the church-steeple; I have watched Strap, with the knapsack on his back, stopping to rest himself upon the wicket-gate; and I know that Commodore Trunnion held that club with Mr. Pickle, in the parlour of our little village alehouse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

From the contents of the knapsack it was evident that this man had been an artist and poet in search of effects.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)