saddlebag (sadlbag)

A large bag, usually one of a pair, hung from or laid over the saddle, and used to carry various articles. Those used in the East are made of cloth, especially carpeting, one long and broad strip having a kind of pocket made at each end by the application of a piece as wide as the strip. Also called camel - bag, from its frequent employment on camels. The Coptic and Syriac manuscripts were stowed away in one side of a great pair of saddle -bags. R. Curzon , Monast. in the Levant, p. 90.