Knapsack vs Satchel - What's the difference?
knapsack | satchel |
(US) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back.
(cryptography) A set of values from which a subset is chosen.
To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight (or longer.)
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.
As nouns the difference between knapsack and satchel
is that knapsack is a case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back while satchel is a bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.As a verb knapsack
is to go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight (or longer..knapsack
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* rucksack * backpackVerb
(en verb)- My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.
