Strictly speaking is a bag to carry oats in. (See Haver-Cakes.) It now means a soldier’s ration-bag slung from the shoulder; a gunner’s leather-case for carrying charges.
· ·
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 
· ·