Other forms: bedrolls
A bedroll is bedding rolled up for carrying. Unroll the bedroll, sleep on a bedroll, strap the bedroll on.
It is what soldiers, drovers and travellers carried before sleeping bags, and it is usually a blanket rolled round whatever else must be kept dry. In American western writing it is the standing word for everything a rider owns.
1nounbedrollBedding rolled up for carrying.
“He unrolled his bedroll beside the campfire and fell asleep under the stars.”
bedroll is bedding.
Bed plus roll, an American formation of the nineteenth century.
From bed + roll.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA