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Haversack

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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.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Haute Claire
Hautville Coit
Have a Care!
Have a Mind for it (To)
Have at You
Have it Out (To)
Havelok
Haver-Cakes
Haveril
Havering (Essex)
Haversack
Havock
Havre (France)
Hawk
Hawk and Handsaw
Hawk nor Buzzard (Neither)
Hawker’s News
Hawkubites
Hawse-hole
Hawthorn
Hay, Hagh, or Haugh