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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gunnysack
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I expect with the Depression on like it is, a gunnysack would get you one now.
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gunnysack

n. (alternative spelling of gunny sack English)

WordNet
gunnysack

n. a bag made of burlap [syn: gunny sack, burlap bag]

Usage examples of "gunnysack".

Her name was Clarise Lantier, and she was picking up trash behind the lakefront bar her husband operated, stuffing it heavily into a gunnysack.

Their wool coats were unbuttoned in the warming day, and fit them like gunnysacks on lapdogs.

Half the ships in port used human-powered winches to unload, or doubled-over stevedores, groaning as they dumped gunnysacks onto horse-drawn wagons.

Earl, you hand me a coupla them gunnysacks so's we can make him comfortable till Doc Svensen comes.

Women in frilly caps cooked in big pots hung over fireplaces, and men in coonskin caps and gunnysack shirts shot rabbits with muskets.

When the Neds saw the headlights and heard the siren, they ceased trying to rip away the gunnysack and chose to race away across the grass verge that separates Hughenden Road from the Great Western, so the patrol car could not follow them.

An so ever day there is ole Sue out there with us, wear-in a big straw hat an carryin a gunnysack, plantin cotton.