Archaic Definition of the Week – Possibles

27 August 2010
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publishingPOSSIBLES _ Belongings, accoutrements, especially camping gear. Borrowed from Spanish (where posibles has a similar meaning), it is primarily a term of the mountain men, who carried their possibles in a possible sack, described by Lt. George Frederick Ruxton as a “wallet of dressed buffalo skin” for carrying “ammunition, a few pounds of tobacco, dressed deerskins for moccasins, &c.”

- Dictionary of the American West by Winfred Blevins.

One Response to Archaic Definition of the Week – Possibles

  1. pitt on 16 July 2011 at 2:33 am

    Get up on and in to BLOOD MERIDIAN

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