(n.) A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.
(n.) A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.
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Rucksack
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(1) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(2) Security will include a police and military presence and private security guards carrying out several layers of checks, including individual body searches using metal detectors, there will be video surveillance cameras and a ban on rucksacks, motorcycle helmets and banners with political or offensive messages.
(3) Like rucksack wearers, Friedrich's figures are often seen from behind, which is why they are known as ruckenfigur .
(4) He sports a wedge haircut like the England star Raheem Sterling, wears tight black leggings and sleeves that he pulls over his hands as he talks, offset with a bright pink rucksack.
(5) The continuous drip treatment was made possible by a specially designed infusion rucksack 19% of the cases still showed a moderate effect on the walking capacity.
(6) Now, this switch in fashion has worked out well for ruckers' backs, but it has been less beneficial to every body part of everyone else because, as previously discussed, when a rucksack goes on both shoulders it instantly becomes invisible to the rucker and extremely dangerous to everyone else.
(7) For women, there is also a high fashion motivation for adopting the rucksack, derived from the trend for luxury sportswear.
(8) Last year she went backpacking in eastern Europe (complete with maple leaf on her rucksack so as not to be mistaken for an American).
(9) Then, when I got into the hearing room, I carefully took it out of the rucksack and hid it under my chair.
(10) He appears with a big pair of headphones round his neck and a black rucksack over his shoulders.
(11) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(12) For a start, I never get whacked in the face by a French schoolchild's rucksack and, secondly, it is most cheering to see them en masse from a distance because they look like a pack of Santas, on their way to a meeting.
(13) Video footage from Brussels showed a man lying on the ground at a tram stop holding a rucksack over the tracks as a bomb-disposal robot inspected him.
(14) A courier can travel from Vietnam to South Africa, pack rhino horns into his rucksack and return within 24 hours.
(15) I'm not sure this is what Jack Kerouac meant when he called for "a rucksack revolution".
(16) If you don't know the name, you will know the rucksack.
(17) The only logical explanation here is that rucksacks must be magical and in possession of some special sparkly quality that renders them weightless and invisible to all those who sport them.
(18) Abedi had carried a metal box containing “well packed” explosives, metal nuts and screws in a box probably inside a Karrimor rucksack, the leaked details showed.
(19) It said he had planned to blow up his car but also had 12 pipe bombs strapped to his body, and a bomb in a rucksack.
(20) Beside them, the belongings of the dead passengers have been piled in heaps: dozens of suitcases, rucksacks, a red summer hat, a broken laptop and a stuffed toy monkey.