Satchel

Quick meaning: Satchel is a noun meaning A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.

Meaning

A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.

Example Sentences

A young culprit has been caught in the fact of robbing an orchard, and brought back to his master, who stands over him with an iron face of angry authority;—the very apples, as if anxious to bear witness against him, are tumbling from his satchel.

"Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel, which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.

Word Forms

• satchels

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knapsack, backpack, pack, sack, handbag, purse.

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