Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
gunny-bag (which see, undergunny ).
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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“That be an example,” said Stella, taking some dried ham from a gunny-sack by the window.
Fateful Journeys Gary E. Parker 2005
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“That be an example,” said Stella, taking some dried ham from a gunny-sack by the window.
Fateful Journeys Gary E. Parker 2005
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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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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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