Meaning of satchel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
3. backpack
4. schoolbag
5. mochila, saddle-cover

Equivalents

Examples

“"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.”

“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.”

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