Lexic.us

Definition of Back pack

1. Noun. A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Back Pack

Literary usage of Back pack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Camp Craft: Modern Practice and Equipment by Warren Hastings Miller (1915)
"They are all rather bulky, in fact too bulky for a back-pack trip, and the weight ... The limit for a comfortable back-pack trip should be 35 pounds for a ..."

2. Landmine Monitor Report 2002: toward a mine-free world by International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch (Organization). (2002)
"The ICRC and Myanmar Red Cross will open a new center for prosthetic production 1 back pack Health Worker Team consists of 60 small groups who travel in ..."

3. "And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight." by Floyd Phillips Gibbons (1918)
"I could see the buttons fly from his tunic and one of the shoulder straps of the back pack part as the sprays of lead struck him. ..."

4. Elements Of Ergonomics Programs: A Primer Based On Workplace Evaluations Of by Alexander L. Cohen (1997)
"A special lumbar motion monitor, worn as a back pack, is used for this purpose. For the same lifting rates, load weight and postural factors, higher peak, ..."

5. Productive Poultry Husbandry: A Complete Text Dealing with the Principles by Harry Reynolds Lewis (1913)
"... back pack; D, an extra fancy grade of roasters, packed in pairs, in special pasteboard cartons. Six cartons make a crate. ..."

6. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"THE ARMS AND HANDS; THE BACK. PACK THE ARMS. I. Paralysis, 37 II. Wasting of One Arm 39 III. Contractures 39 IV. (Edema 40 V. Tumors 40 VI. ..."

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