: a cylindrical canvas bag used especially by a sailor for clothes and other gear
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Mattis trashes his resignation forms and, riding the roller coaster of his emotions, packs his seabag for a long deployment.
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Jim Proser, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
Carrying their seabags on their backs, some of the sailors gathered around Mills for a photo in front of Andrew Mills Hall.
—Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2017
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Jim Proser, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
Carrying their seabags on their backs, some of the sailors gathered around Mills for a photo in front of Andrew Mills Hall.
—Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2017
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seabag
noun
sea·bag
ˈsē-ˌbag 
: a canvas bag used especially by a sailor for gear (as clothes)
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