gunnysack

[guhn-ee-sak]

noun

1. a sack made of gunny or burlap.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gunnysack¹

First recorded in 1860–65; gunny + sack ¹

Example Sentences

Shifa wordlessly passed him a gunnysack from the boat to use as a towel and took over the oars.

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Dinah wiggled frantic against me, pounding her gunnysack body into my side.

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I had laid in a huge store of gunnysacks, hoping to fill them all with the threshed grain.

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In my case, it didn’t settle gently like a leaf, it thudded down like a gunnysack of organ meat.

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“There’s three gunnysacks on the back porch,” he said.

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