barley sack

American  

noun

Southwestern U.S. (chiefly California).

1. a burlap bag.

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Regionalisms

See gunnysack.

Example Sentences

Fear not, though the barley sack be empty,   Here's half of Hassan's scanty bread.

From Project Gutenberg

Into a barley sack went his saddlery, with a reserve of many straps, buckles and horse-brushes, all collected at odd moments.

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But in three days the barley sack and its queer-looking additions had been changed for a true saddle—with the cinches drawn up tight enough for riding.

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On that evening, also, Bull made his next step forward toward the most difficult proposition of all—he took a partly filled barley sack and put it on the back of Diablo.

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So Bull returned to the idea of the barley sack, with gradual additions.

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