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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gunny-bag (which see, under gunny).

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Examples

  • But the price is right $10 a day, so I mount the gunny-sack and sheep-fleece saddle, and with a crude map in hand start loping northwards up the jagged coast.

    Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sleeves rolled up from soap-flecked arms and a wet gunny-sack around her waist told of the task at which she had been caught.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • That was when he knocked me down, grabbed me by the belt, and heaved me aft; I'm over thirteen stone, but I might have been his gunny-sack.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Tante Emma and Tante Anna, always spoken in that order, never Tante Anna and Tante Emma, were always draped in black to ankle top, but not in the gunny-sack raiment of the typical Tante or Bestemor.

    The Strange Tantes 2010

  • You might look at the world of the first novel as a gunny-sack race in the gathering twilight at a county fair, a festival that is on the verge of obsolescence anyhow.

    Blythe on Harrison; Harrison on Hannah 2007

  • You might look at the world of the first novel as a gunny-sack race in the gathering twilight at a county fair, a festival that is on the verge of obsolescence anyhow.

    February 2007 2007

  • “That be an example,” said Stella, taking some dried ham from a gunny-sack by the window.

    Fateful Journeys Gary E. Parker 2005

  • “That be an example,” said Stella, taking some dried ham from a gunny-sack by the window.

    Fateful Journeys Gary E. Parker 2005

  • That was when he knocked me down, grabbed me by the belt, and heaved me aft; I'm over thirteen stone, but I might have been his gunny-sack.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • That was when he knocked me down, grabbed me by the belt, and heaved me aft; I'm over thirteen stone, but I might have been his gunny-sack.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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