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mess kit

–noun
a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used esp. by soldiers and campers.
Also called mess gear.


Origin:
1875–80
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mess kit  
n.  A set of cooking and eating utensils compactly arranged in a kit, used by soldiers and campers.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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