satchel
noun/ˈsæt͡ʃəl/
Etymology First recorded circa 1340 as Middle English sachel, from Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum (“money bag, purse”), a diminutive of Latin sacculus, itself a diminutive of saccus (“bag”). See sack.
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A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
- "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.1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters” (chapter XV), in Uncle Tom's cabin^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin_(1852)), volume 1, Boston: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, page 239:
- 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.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:
- Derived terms
- besatcheled, satchel bomb, satchel charge, satchelful, satchelled