baggage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BAG'GAGE, noun [Eng.package.] 1. The tents, clothing, utensils, and other necessaries of an army. 2. The clothing and other conveniencies which a traveller carries with him, on a journey. Having dispatched my baggage by water to Altdorf. [The English now call this luggage.] BAG'GAGE, noun A low worthless woman; a strumpet.
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