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/ˈhævəsæk/ · noun
A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap, and originally made of canvas..
And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.
When I went, I left from the station / With a haversack and some trepidation
Use haversack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Haversack means A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap, and originally made of canvas..
Common synonyms include rucksack, knapsack, backpack.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.
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