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Originally Posted by gmw
Ooh... I missed that! I checked my OED but obviously didn't look far enough. A "sleeping bag" sense could cover the context in the book. That would make the mistake mine (I assumed she meant in the modern sense, being unaware of the old sense). I should have known better than to doubt Miss Amelia Peabody! 
Thanks for the correction. |
I looked up the context.
"The watchers were not to interfere with him until they saw him actually in his disguise. They would then apprehend him; one would hold him captive while the other ran to give us the news. In a body bag we would haul the miscreant back to the village and expose his trickery."
Yes, it certainly seems that sleeping bag is the intended meaning. An archaeological expedition is much more likely to have a sleeping bag than a (modern meaning) body bag.