Definition of "hold-all" []

• Alternative spelling of holdall. (noun)

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• "When she bent over her capacious hold-all and rummaged around in it, he glimpsed some kind of hideous milking contraption, a plastic bottle attached to a suction cap, that made him turn aside in faint disgust."
• "The effect is that of a slightly withered, tatty, Miss Havisham-esque hold-all."
• "It is not clear what Mr. Borthwick meant here by the hold-all term “took.”"