(v. t.) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
(2) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
(3) Experiments on the frequency and duration of molluscicide treatments were carried out, and from these it was concluded that 5-day applications of N-tritylmorpholine at 0.025 ppm every 7 weeks might lead to a break in transmission by control of the snails.In another set of trials, drainage ditches were treated alternately with N-tritylmorpholine and niclosamide ethanolamine salt, and although the chemicals differed only slightly in their effect, the latter-being ovicidal-was chosen to be applied at approximately 4 ppm by knapsack sprayer every 8 weeks.
(4) He was weighed down with baggage: a white plastic bag, a raffia shopping basket and a knapsack, all of which appeared to be full.
(5) Trenches are recreated, and knapsacks available so you can feel how heavy they weigh.
(6) And do those abandoned knapsacks belong to corpses hauled out of sight of the camera?
(7) The lower legs of the workers were exposed principally when knapsack sprayers were used.
(8) To support the continued use and the registration of monocrotophos, a field study was conducted at Calauan, Laguna, The Philippines, to assess exposure and the resulting health risk to 21 spraymen applying monocrotophos to rice crop by knapsack spraying during 3 consecutive days.
(9) Then, his knapsack stocked with an apple, a toothbrush, a book on government – all you need for a night behind bars – John Lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change America.
(10) Non-toxic model pesticides and tracer dyes were applied to rice, vegetable, mango, cotton and coffee crops in the Philippines, Thailand, Tanzania and Malawi, using knapsack and ULV spinning disc sprayers.
(11) Two patients with signs and symptoms of paralysis of the brachial plexus, caused by compression during surgery in one (case 1) and by a knapsack in the other (case 2), were examined.
(12) Items assessed included protective garments worn by workers mixing and loading the organophosphorus insecticide formulation Tamaron and by spraymen applying the diluted formulation for several hours per day to a cotton crop with knapsack sprayers.
(13) The OED dates the first reference to "knapsacks" to 1603, when the English poet Michael Drayton imagined soldiers filling them with things found in the field.
(14) "I am leafing through a CDF drawing book and there are knapsacks on some people.
(15) Like the children in Calais, he had very little with him, a few clothes and a knapsack of food, (which he forgot to open on the journey – a sign, he thinks, of how traumatised he was).
(16) As a former foreign secretary and as a backbencher with a field marshal's baton in his knapsack, the past two and a half years have been hard.
(17) Emulsifiable concentrates of DursbanR (chlorpyrifos) and Dowco 214 (chlorpyrifos-methyl) were tested as mosquito larvicides using Hudson knapsack sprayers on small plots of rice-fields on Penang Island.
(18) Patten begins gently by telling me that his grandparents were both headteachers in Manchester; he had Didsbury aunties and, as a boy, used to follow Brian Statham, the Lancashire fast bowler, from ground to ground, a bottle of Tizer and Sandwich Spread sarnies in his knapsack.
(19) All I took with me was a small shoulder knapsack that contained a six-pack of beer, cigarettes, matches, a bag of crisps and a toilet roll.
Rucksack
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(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.