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English
Etymology
From grip + sack.
Noun
gripsack (plural gripsacks)
- (colloquial, dated) A traveller's bag.
1910, Jack London, “Trust”, in Lost Face:As for Bondell's gripsack, it was inconceivable that forty pounds could weigh so much. It pressed him down like a mountain, and he looked back with unbelief to the year before, when he had climbed that same pass with a hundred and fifty pounds on his back. If those loads had weighed a hundred and fifty pounds, then Bondell's grip weighed five hundred.
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, chapter 11, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, , →OCLC:“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.”
References
“gripsack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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