1. Small traveling bags or suitcases, typically with handles; pieces of hand luggage.
Usage: Plural form of gripsack; Somewhat dated or informal; Common in 19th and early 20th century usage

Examples

• The travelers packed their gripsacks with clothes and essentials for the long journey.
• He carried two gripsacks onto the train, one in each hand.
• The old hotel had a rack for guests' gripsacks near the front desk.
• She stuffed her gripsack with souvenirs from her trip abroad.
• The porters helped load the gripsacks onto the stagecoach.
• Salesmen traveling from town to town carried their wares in sturdy gripsacks.