haversack

Accoutrements included blankets, canteens, haversacks and “possibles” bags.

“I thought we’d use the microscope today,” he said, securing it in its case and nestling it in his haversack.

All it ever did was take up space, dangling uselessly over my shoulder in its haversack like a wingless khaki albatross for the past four years.

On the end page of W T Palmer's 1939 book, there's an illustration of two exhausted but very contented little penguins, reposing on their haversacks.

Out go the soldiers in tin hats, the bayonets, the haversacks and hobnailed ankle boots.