Definition of "gripsack"
gripsack
noun
plural gripsacks
(colloquial, dated) A traveller's bag.
Quotations
As for Bondell's gripsack, it was inconceivable that forty pounds could weigh so much. It pressed him down like a mountain, and he looked back with unbelief to the year before, when he had climbed that same pass with a hundred and fifty pounds on his back. If those loads had weighed a hundred and fifty pounds, then Bondell's grip weighed five hundred.
1910, Jack London, “Trust”, in Lost Face