ditty bag

"Snow, hand me another from that ditty bag near your feet."

She stepped out of the cabin, turned to the right, and shouldered the ditty bag.

Before noon the first was lowered from the deck to the water, and ten men went down into her with their ditty bags.

"Let me guess," she said, putting a finger to her lips, "you're a ditty bag."

Angie was there, holding her small ditty bag.

"They ought to be tucked over there under that ditty bag, unless somebody used 'em all."

He searched the curve of the sphere while freeing the bio-bomb from his ditty bag.

He also had a canvas ditty bag loaded with film packs and flashbulbs hanging from his shoulder.

You've got your ditty bags all packed?"

He was carrying a well-stuffed ditty bag.

It is said that sailors would secure their belongings in a ditty bag using the thief knot, often with the ends hidden.

When used by sailors or marines they are sometimes called seabags or ditty bags.

Initials carved in a bulkhead, old hooks where a hammock or ditty bag had been hung.

Meehan turned in that direction, the ditty bag bouncing against the front of his thighs, both hands holding the handle.

A main point in this ditty bag of off-duty observations and aperçus is that uniforms are not costumes.

'Let's go dump our ditty bags and check out Leggett.'

An inmate moved out of Somers at night now gets a ditty bag with a toothbrush and a few essentials until his belongings are reissued.

There was a cheap carry-on stuffed with one change of clothes, worn, and a ditty bag, probably the bag she'd taken to Fairbanks with her.

You may take your ditty bags with you, and I will see to it that you are paid the wages owing you before you go."

A pair of olive drab ditty bags was atop the crate containing the Golden Buddha; these contained emergency supplies and weapons.

The Navy League Ditty Bag, (a small gift bag full of clothing, food and sundries) was a welcome comfort to sailors throughout this time.

Meehan packed everything into his ditty bag, put on the zippered cotton jacket he'd worn when they'd picked him up, and left his little cell for the last time.

With plug-in device and cord for recharging, the travel WaterPik comes in a black ditty bag that stows conveniently (although not weightlessly) in your suitcase.

When the general departed, a nurse took the photo and the medal, and said, "I'll put these in your ditty bag so that you can find them when you wake up."

Hughie Jones: "Hughie' Ditty Bag" (FECD81)