holdall in English

noun
1
a large rectangular bag with handles and a shoulder strap, used for carrying clothes and other personal belongings.
‘The smaller one, the one with the shotgun, returned to the exhibition room carrying two holdalls over his shoulder,’ said Mr Fisher.
noun

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1. Synonyms for Carpet bag include bag, suitcase, baggage, luggage, rucksack, carryall, case, holdall, knapsack and backpack

2. 30 I pray that she and our two children are OK, quickly pick my holdall off the carousel, nip to the bathroom to wipe my face, and call her back.

3. This means it is a convenient holdall term, which does not follow the rules of cladistics.For example, most extinct Agnathans belong to the stem group (ancestral group) of gnathostomes