satchel

First recorded circa 1340 as Middle English sachel, from Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum (“money bag, purse”), a diminutive of Latin sacculus, itself a diminutive of saccus (“bag”). See sack.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæt͡ʃəl/

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• Rhymes: -ætʃəl

satchel (plural satchels)

1. A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:

     A young culprit has been caught in the fact of robbing an orchard, and brought back to his master, who stands over him with an iron face of angry authority;—the very apples, as if anxious to bear witness against him, are tumbling from his satchel.

   "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel, which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.

• besatcheled (rare)

• saccular
• saccule
• sachet
• sack

• Aletsch, Slechta, chalets, chestal, châlets, latches, scaleth, scathel

satchel

1. Alternative form of sachel