ditty bag

Example Sentences

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No, this time the malaise comes aboard in Admiral Kirk's ditty bag, and it is that common cold of the earthling's psyche, a mid-life crisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

He secured the drawstring of the ditty bag to the end of the fishing line and inched forward again.

From The Pirates of Shan by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

That same haversack was used as a "ditty" bag.

From In Camp on the Big Sunflower by Leslie, Lawrence J.

There were some tri-dimensional color slides in the ditty bag hanging by his bunk.

From Rescue Squad by O'Hara, Thomas J.

The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-tokens, jewels, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir