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Duffel   Listen
noun
Duffel  n.  
1.
A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. (Written also duffle) "Good duffel gray and flannel fine."
2.
Outfit or suppplies, collectively; kit. (Colloq., U. S.)






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"Duffel" Quotes from Famous Books



... the last of the canoes, it rested with a flash of surprise. The craft was still floating idly, its bow barely caught against the bank. The crew had deserted, but amidships, among the packages of pelts and duffel, sat a stranger. The canoe was that of the ...
— Conjuror's House - A Romance of the Free Forest • Stewart Edward White

... trip, including as they did, canoe, tent, blankets, tarpaulins, duffel bags, shooting irons and cooking utensils,—besides food, were of no small bulk and weight even divided ...
— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells

... martial splendor of his full scout regalia, his duffel bag stuffed to capacity with his aluminum cooking set and two extra scout suits. His diminutive but compact and sturdy little form was decorated with his scout jackknife hanging from his belt, his compass dangling from his neck, and his ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... everywhere in the woods along the Assiniboine, the Overlanders began to barter for carts, oxen, ponies, and dried deer-meat or pemmican. An ox and cart cost from forty to fifty dollars. Ponies sold at twenty-five dollars. Pemmican cost sixteen cents a pound, and a pair of duffel Hudson's Bay blankets cost eight or ten dollars. Instead of blankets, many of the travellers bought the cheaper buffalo robes. These sold as low as ...
— The Cariboo Trail - A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia • Agnes C. Laut

... my boy, he never got over it. He got on top of it. I mind now how he was gone a long spell in the timber; no grub, no duffel, no nothin'—only his ol' gun. He lived off'n the bounty o' these yere wooded hills, an' he let the spell o' God Almighty's woods an' crags an' streams heal up his broken heart. Then he came back. I remember one mornin' he come to my shanty, and a hungrier, ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley



Words linked to "Duffel" :   fabric, duffle, duffel bag, drawstring bag, duffel coat, material, cloth, textile, duffle bag



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