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Definition of Gripsack
1. Noun. A small suitcase.
Definition of Gripsack
1. n. A traveler's handbag.
Definition of Gripsack
1. Noun. (colloquial dated) A traveller's bag. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gripsack
1. a valise [n -S] - See also: valise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gripsack
Literary usage of Gripsack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"I says; and I stooped over and wormed the gripsack out from under his head, ...
I give her the gripsack; and then I went down in my clothes and dug out what ..."
2. Proceedings of the New York State Stenographers' Association (1897)
"He brought his gripsack with 'him, and they thought the Spaniards were coming
... He left his gripsack in the office. After several days Moynahan went back, ..."
3. The every-day life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne (1914)
"A few moments afterward I came across my own gripsack, with the document in it
all right." The fourth of March soon came, and with it the impressive ..."
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