kit bag

a small bag or knapsack, as for a soldier.

Origin of kit bag

First recorded in 1895–1900

The food Katy had fixed was wonderful, though rather squashed on account of all the costumes being on top of it in the kit-bag.

Us and the Bottleman |Edith Ballinger Price
And the secret of the whim he meant to follow lay, he knew, within the kit-bag which he had found Captain Melun ransacking.

The Crime Club |William Holt-White
Very quickly I completed my change of boots, and got my kit-bag once more stowed away in a transport wagon.

With The Immortal Seventh Division |E. J. Kennedy and the Lord Bishop of Winchester
A porter took his kit-bag and wanted to relieve him also of the gun-case, the fishing-rod, and the gabardine.

Priscilla's Spies |George A. Birmingham

Pack a kit-bag, catch the afternoon boat train for Boulogne, and go for a walking tour in Normandy and Brittany.

Number Seventeen |Louis Tracy