Definition of Hand luggage

1. Noun. Luggage that is light enough to be carried by hand.

Generic synonyms: Baggage, Luggage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Luggage

hand grenade
hand grenades
hand holes
hand in
hand in glove
hand in hand
hand in one's dinner pail
hand injuries
hand it to somebody
hand jive
hand jobs
hand line
hand log
hand lotion
hand luggage (current term)
hand made
hand mirror
hand mower
hand net
hand off
hand on a plate
hand organ
hand out
hand over
hand over fist
hand pay
hand pie
hand pile
hand plant

Literary usage of Hand luggage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1895)
"... the moment the porters received Mrs. Bunch's luggage, whether van or hand luggage, they received, for carriage to Bath, all the luggage of the passenger ..."

2. The Legal News by James Kirby (1888)
"altogether distinct and different from the contract as regards hand-luggage ; that, in fact, there are two separate contracts, and that, whatever may he the ..."

3. From a Russian Diary, 1917-1920 by An Englishwoman (1921)
"Monday, at 9.30, I left the house; the Tartar yard-man helped me to pull my hand-luggage on to a toboggan to the station. As we had been told we might have ..."

4. One of Ours by Willa Cather (1922)
"Ralph hurried them into the light car, where he had already stowed Enid's hand luggage. Only wizened little Mrs. Royce slipped out from ..."

5. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"There is also a dining-room here, and a check-stand for hand-luggage. ... They ask outrageous prices for carrying hand-luggage, and they will often demand ..."

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