from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A blanket fabric made of low-grade woolen cloth with a nap on both sides.
noun Clothing and other personal gear carried by a camper.
from The Century Dictionary.
See duffle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
noun Colloq., U. S. Outfit or suppplies, collectively; kit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A kind of coarsewoolencloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a coarse heavy woolen fabric
noun a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Dutch, after Duffel, a town in Belgium.]
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From the Belgian town of Duffel.
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Many of the cases appear to be shameless, with some suspects simply mailing thousands of dollars home or smuggling money out of the country in duffel bags.
Many of the cases appear to be shameless, with some suspects simply mailing thousands of dollars home or smuggling money out of the country in duffel bags.
The next item I took out of the duffel was a black nylon webbed gun belt with pouches to hold pepper spray and bludgeoning batons, not to mention my Smith & Wesson.
The basket that sits in his light boat to hold his smaller articles is called a duffel basket, as was the basket of sundries in the trader's canoe, I fancy.
At least one past incident at Orlando International Airport shows the limits of background checks: In March 2007, an airline employee used his security privileges to sneak a duffel bag containing 13 handguns, an assault rifle and 8 pounds of marijuana aboard a Delta flight from Orlando to San Juan.
At least one past incident at Orlando International Airport shows the limits of background checks: In March 2007, an airline employee used his security privileges to sneak a duffel bag containing 13 handguns, an assault rifle and 8 pounds of marijuana aboard a Delta flight from Orlando to San Juan.
At least one past incident at Orlando International Airport shows the limits of background checks: In March 2007, an airline employee used his security privileges to sneak a duffel bag containing 13 handguns, an assault rifle and 8 pounds of marijuana aboard a Delta flight from Orlando to San Juan.
At least one past incident at Orlando International Airport shows the limits of background checks: In March 2007, an airline employee used his security privileges to sneak a duffel bag containing 13 handguns, an assault rifle and 8 pounds of marijuana aboard a Delta flight from Orlando to San Juan.
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