Dictionary

satchel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsæt͡ʃəl/
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Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
   • 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. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:
   • "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. 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters” (chapter XV), in Uncle Tom's cabin^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin_(1852)), volume 1, Boston: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, page 239:

Forms

Deriveds

satchelful · satchel bomb · satchelled · besatcheled · satchel charge

Relateds

saccular · saccule · sachet · sack

Translations (57)

gd màileid (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · fi reppu (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ga mála scoile (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · gd poca (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · it cartella (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · la pēra (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · tr omuz çantası (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ja 通学鞄 (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · no ransel (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · tr sırt çantası (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · gl motela (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · id tas buku (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · no skulderveske (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ru ра́нец (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · kmr çanteyê piştê (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · de Schulranzen (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · he יַלְקוּט (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · nl rugtas (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ru портфе́ль (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ro raniță (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ro ghiozdan (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · it zaino (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · nl rugzak (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · eo paperujo (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · gl bersaco (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · enm sachel (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · cmn 書包 /书包 (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · pl tornister (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · he תַּרְמִיל (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · de Schultasche (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · nl ransel (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · fr cartable (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · he תִּיק גַּב (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · hu iskolatáska (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · kmr çanteyê milî (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · pt bolsa (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · de Ranzen (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · gl barxoleta (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · de Tornister (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · gl fardel (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · hu hátitáska (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · es mochila (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ca cartera (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · gl troxa (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · cmn 挎包 (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · bg чанта за гръб (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · cs aktovka (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ca motxilla (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · es morral (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · fi koulureppu (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · es chuspa (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ru су́мка (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · dsb toboła (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · cs brašna (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · fi olkalaukku (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · ja 学生鞄 (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps) · de Umhängetasche (bag or case with one or two shoulder straps)