Now dial. Also snap-sack. [ad. LG. snappsack (hence G. schnappsack), f. snappen SNAP v.] A knapsack.
Common from c. 1650 to 1700.
1633. Shirley, Contention, D j b. She cannot eate a Snapsacke, Nor carry baggage.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann. (1658), 515. Mithridates sent all the prisoners he had taken in this war home, with provision in their snapsacks.
1670. Phil. Trans., V. 2097. A very large Heart,… the figure of which was not Conical, but like a Souldiers pera or Snapsack.
1716. B. Church, Hist. Philip’s War (1867), II. 22. He finding … three Snapsacks of Powder, went immediately to the Army.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq., 7. If you put nothing into my Snapsack but Healths, I shall carry them with ease.
1881. Isle Wight Gloss., 33. Snapzack, a knapsack.
fig. 1643. J. P. (title), A Spirituall Snapsacke for the Parliament Souldiers, containing cordiall encouragements.
