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grub-bag
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a bag or sack in which to keep provisions while on the trail.
Quotations
1913
Others busied themselves in loosening the lashings of the toboggans in order to get the "grub" bag, which was placed at the end of the load so as to be easy of access.
1946
. . . only Nathan and old Gideon . . . went on, with the one musket, the sled to drag, and not much more than the bone of the ham in their grub-bag.