forepack

A pack or container carried or located on the front or forward side.

Noun

  1. A pack or container carried or located on the front or forward side.
    • The hulls are subdivided by five steel and one wooden watertight bulkheads. In the forepack is a storeroom for provisions, etc.; also gasoline tanks, behind which is a crew space, with ample accommodation for eight men,...
    • A forepack carried over the saddlebags contained a gas mask, hand spade, food bag, field flask and cooking utensils. - 1991, Alex Buchner, The German infantry handbook, 1939-1945:
    • This could not be applied to the forepack ballast tank but this will be generally operated at a fixed level. - 1993, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference:

Origin

From fore- + pack, modelled on backpack.

Forms

forepacks

Antonyms

backpack