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Workbag

Workbag \Work"bag`\, n. A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

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workbag

n. A bag containing tools or material used for work, especially needlework.

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workbag

n. container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) [syn: workbasket, workbox]

Usage examples of "workbag".

She grubbed in her workbag, digging past rolags, scissors, skeins of finished yarn.

She found her workbag to hand and busied herself with laying out her stitchery.

She would be aided by the silks from her workbag and samples of textiles that Dougherty fetched for her from Leicester.

Reluctantly, dutifully, he took a marker from his workbag and obliterated the exposed part of the old label.

The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a pleasure to herself and to all around her.

Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her.

And then when it was quite dark and the house was quiet I took a big workbag that I had and I crept out of the house and into the rose garden, and I gathered up out of the wreckage of their smashed pots all the geranium plants that I could manage to find in the darkness and filled my bag with them, and then I walked through the park and out through the tunnel and the big door and up the road that leads out of the valley.

She slid her chalks into her leather workbag and began untying the front of the rough linen smock she wore to protect her gown.

Francesca briskly folded her smock and stuffed it into her workbag with her chalks.

Her workbag was sitting on the bed beside her, and she was running a brush through her hair.

Hepatica, examining the details of the tiny travelling workbag I always carry with me.

I had breakfast at six, luncheon would not be unacceptable at half-past ten, at about which time I lost sight of the scenery and confined my attention to a worsted workbag in which Nurse Bundle had a store of most acceptable buns.

Bundle gathered up her skirts, and her worsted workbag, and clambered into the coach.

Making reassuring noises in her throat, Rosie locked her eyeball onto a rolling bovine pupil and, her workbag with its sketchpads, paints and paintbrushes banging clumsily against her thigh, climbed carefully down off the stile onto the grass.

Yet, to see her with it, one would think she had always carried silk workbags, scented with lavender.