haversack

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhævəsæk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap, and originally made of canvas.
    — And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.
  2. An oat-sack, or nosebag for a horse. archaic

词形变化

haversacks plural

词汇关系

相关词
backpack knapsack rucksack

词源

From French havresac, from Low German Haaversack and/or German Habersack, Hafersack (literally “oat-sack”), from Hafer + Sack. Compare also Dutch haverzak.
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