Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag designed to contain seeds; specifically, a bag filled with flaxseed, put around the tubing in a bore-hole, in order that by its swelling it may form a watertight packing: formerly extensively used in the oil-region of Pennsylvania.
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Examples
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Knowing well how much a child is gratified by being permitted to imitate a man's work, he sometimes hung the seed-bag, with a few handfuls in it, upon my shoulder, and sent me into the field to sow.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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At one side a man with a spade rests, while on the other a man with a seed-bag is already beginning to sow.
An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Sheldon Cheney
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The ribs are then collected and hung in the room till sowing-time, when they are inserted in the sown field or in the seed-bag amongst the flax seed.
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow) 1922
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The ribs are then collected and hung in the room till sowing-time, when they are inserted in the sown field or in the seed-bag amongst the flax seed.
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The ribs are then collected and hung in the room till sowing-time, when they are inserted in the sown field or in the seed-bag amongst the flax seed.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Equipped for agricultural labour, each grasping a hoe and carrying a seed-bag on his shoulder, they set out to work in their appointed places, contributing the required number of days of forced labour.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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Whose hands bear, here, a seed-bag -- there, an urn.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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After this failure, I staid about two weeks; and after having arranged every thing to the best of my knowledge, I saddled my pony, went into the cellar where I kept my grass-seed apparatus, put my clothes into a pair of saddle-bags, and them into my seed-bag, and, thus equipped, set sail for the north star.
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Then, I thought, he means to get at the truth by looking in my seed-bag, where, sure enough, he would not find grass seed, but the seeds of
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After this failure I staid about two weeks, and, after having arranged every thing to the best of my knowledge, I saddled my pony, went into the cellar where I kept my grass seed apparatus, put my clothes into a pair of saddlebags, and them into my seed-bag, and thus equipped set sail for the North
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